Google’s AI innovations at Cloud Next 2025: What CIOs need to know

Smaller LLMs and other updates

At Cloud Next 2025, Google also introduced specialized LLMs for video, audio, and images in the form of Veo 2, Chirp 3, and Imagen 3.

According to analysts, these specialized LLMs might help enterprises achieve more accuracy on video, audio and image generation-related tasks while reducing costs to a certain extent.

Specialized LLMs and smaller, faster Gemini variants directly address cost-performance optimization — an unsolved issue in enterprise AI scaling, according to Hinchcliffe.

“For CIOs, these updates make it more realistic to embed LLMs in edge devices, private data stores, or verticalized apps without overspending,” Hinchcliffe said.

To enterprises with productivity, Google, last week, updated its productivity suite with new agents via Google Workspace and introduced new CES agents.

However, Hinchcliffe said the real value of these updates for any CIO lies in the fact that these agents or updates help bridge the gap between enterprise task automation and structured, governable AI workflows.

“This is something that most vendors gloss over in their demonstration of new capabilities,” Hinchcliffe said. Other updates that Google announced included a slew of data analytics, databases, networking, and security updates along with a new Application Design Center.