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Google Allocates $750 Million to Aid Cloud Partners in Selling AI Agents
At its Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas this week, Google announced a $750 million budget to support partners in promoting AI agents. The funding targets costs for proof-of-concept projects and more. TechCrunch reported on several startups expanding their use of Google Cloud features.
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Google has earmarked $750 million to help its Cloud partners sell more AI agents to enterprises, TechCrunch reported. The funding is available to partners ranging from startups to big consulting firms. It can be used for costs like Gemini proof-of-concept projects, Google forward-deployed engineers, cloud credits, and deployment rebates.
The announcement came as Google Cloud Next takes place this week in Las Vegas. Google highlighted a long list of startups using its cloud services, either newly signed or expanding their footprint. Among them, Lovable is expanding its use of Google Cloud by launching a new coding agent through Google’s enterprise app marketplace.
Lovable, a coding platform startup, reported being on track for $400 million in annual recurring revenue as of February. Notion is using Gemini models to power its text and image generation features. Notion is an AI-infused document productivity app.
It was most recently valued at about $11 billion. Gamma is using Google’s state-of-the-art image model Nano Banana 2 and other Google Cloud features. Gamma, an AI-based presentation tool, uses Google's image model.
Inferact is accessing Nvidia’s GPUs through Google Cloud. Inferact is using the tech giant’s AI stack. The company is the commercial inference startup from the creators of the popular open-source project vLLM.
ComfyUI offers access to Nano Banana 2. It is the popular open-source tool for creating AI-generated images and multimedia. ChorusView makes AI-powered smart tags that track the condition and movement of goods in real time.
