
What’s new in AI infrastructure and orchestration this month
Google Cloud provides a summary of AI infrastructure and orchestration updates released between May and July 2026. The updates include new products, technical guides, and research to support the transition toward agentic AI.
Why it matters
Enterprises can use these updated tools to scale massive AI models and deploy agents more cost-effectively while reducing data transfer bottlenecks.
The details
- Managed Lustre and C4N network-optimized VMs have reached general availability.
- GKE clusters now support scaling up to 15,000 nodes with Network Policy enforcement.
- Google open-sourced k8s-aibom to monitor container clusters and detect AI runtimes automatically.
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Google owns Google Cloud Code
Google develops Google Cloud Code.
Google owns Google Cloud Assist
Google develops Google Cloud Assist.
Google develops the MaxTest software framework.
Google owns Cluster Director
Google develops Cluster Director orchestration software.
Google owns Google Cloud Managed Lustre
Google offers Google Cloud Managed Lustre.
DDN owns and develops EXAScaler storage technology.
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Google Cloud provides C4N network-optimized VMs.
Intel owns 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable
Intel manufactures 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
Google owns Nano Banana
Nano Banana is an AI technology developed by Google.
Google owns Hyperdisk Extreme
Google Cloud provides Hyperdisk Extreme block storage.
Google owns GKE Dataplane V2
Google develops GKE Dataplane V2 capability.
Google Cloud develops and maintains llm-d.
Google open-sourced the k8s-aibom Kubernetes controller.
Moonshot AI owns Kimi K3
Moonshot AI created the Kimi K3 open-weight model.
Google Cloud provides managed DRANET integration.
Mistral AI owns Mistral 3 Large
Mistral AI created the Mistral 3 Large model.
Google developed Gemma 4.
NVIDIA owns NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition
NVIDIA manufactures RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs.
Google owns TPU Developer Hub
Google hosts the TPU Developer Hub.
Google owns TPU AI Telemetry Collector Agent
Google released the TPU AI Telemetry Collector Agent.
Google owns GKE Inference Gateway
Google provides GKE Inference Gateway.
Google owns Cloud Storage FUSE
Google Cloud provides Cloud Storage FUSE.
Run:ai owns Run:ai Model Streamer
Run:ai developed the Run:ai Model Streamer software.
Google Cloud provides A2 VM instances.
Google owns Agent Substrate
Google open-sourced the Agent Substrate project.
Google owns Google AI Edge Portal
Google provides Google AI Edge Portal.
Google owns Cloud Storage Rapid
Google Cloud introduced Cloud Storage Rapid.
Google owns Rapid Bucket
Google Cloud offers Rapid Bucket storage.
Google owns Rapid Cache
Google Cloud offers Rapid Cache service.
Google Cloud partnered with DDN for Managed Lustre.
C4N is built with 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable
C4N VMs are powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
C4N VMs are built on Google Titanium offloading hardware.
Pager Health uses Google Kubernetes Engine
Pager Health leverages GKE for its healthcare platform.
Pager Health uses BigQuery
Pager Health uses BigQuery for healthcare data analytics.
Pager Health uses Cloud SQL
Pager Health uses Cloud SQL.
Pager Health uses Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Pager Health leverages Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
Trustpilot uses Gemma 4
Trustpilot built a streaming pipeline using fine-tuned Gemma models.
Trustpilot uses Dataflow
Trustpilot uses Dataflow for its streaming pipeline.
Trustpilot uses A2 Series
Trustpilot runs its pipeline on cost-optimized A2 VMs.
Trustpilot uses NVIDIA A100
Trustpilot uses A100 GPUs.
Imgix uses AI Hypercomputer
Imgix serves images and videos using AI Hypercomputer.
Imgix processes images using G4 VMs.
Gartner recognized Google as a Leader in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms.
Google offers G4 VM series.
Google owns Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage is an object storage service offered by Google.
NVIDIA owns NVIDIA A100
NVIDIA created the Ampere-architecture based A100 Tensor Core GPU.
Dataflow is Google Cloud's fully managed, serverless execution service for Apache Beam.
Bikash Koley works at Google
Bikash Koley is VP of Global Infrastructure at Google.
Arjun Singh works at Google
Arjun Singh is Engineering Fellow at Google.
Reinforcement Learning is related to llm-d
Co-operative time-slicing in llm-d supports RL workloads.
Confidential Computing is related to G4 Series
Confidential Computing is available on G4 machine series VMs.
Model Context Protocol is related to Cloud Storage
Model Context Protocol enables connecting AI agents to Cloud Storage.
Google owns and operates Titanium.
Google owns and operates Ironwood.
Google owns and operates JAX.
Google owns AI Hypercomputer
Google provides AI Hypercomputer infrastructure.
Kubernetes is related to Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Kubernetes Engine is built on Kubernetes container orchestration.
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