The momentum is undeniable: the world’s fastest-growing AI startups are building with Google Cloud . Instead of stitching together fragmented point solutions, founders are building their businesses here because we offer the entire AI stack in a single, open environment. And, as we saw at Next ‘26 last week , we continue to advance the models, infrastructure, platforms, security, and governance that allow startups to build faster and dream bigger. You can already see this scale and velocity in action every day. Platforms like Lovable are empowering developers to generate over 200,000 new projects daily. Thinking Machines Labs is leveraging the latest NVIDIA Blackwell chips through Google Cloud to double its training and serving speeds. When it comes to activating complex data, Parallel bypassed the multi-vendor headache, using our integrated ecosystem — bridging Gemini, BigQuery, and Spanner — to massively scale their high-accuracy search APIs.…