Release8d ago
Google brings Gemini Robotics ER 2, DeepMind's embodied reasoning model, to Google Cloud in public preview so enterprises can orchestrate VLA models and multi-robot teams
On Oct 27 Google Cloud announced that Gemini Robotics ER 2, Google DeepMind's embodied reasoning model, is in public preview on the Gemini platform via Model Garden, under the model ID gemini-robotics-er-2-preview and built on Gemini 3.5 Flash. It acts as a robot's high-level brain: it reasons over space and time in video, plans multi-step tasks, checks whether an action succeeded, and calls VLA models and navigation APIs as tools, including across teams of different robots. Google says it pinpoints key video frames with 91.3% accuracy.
Release14d ago
OpenAI frontier models and Codex are coming to Google Cloud: Model Garden access, bought via Marketplace against existing GCP commitments
On Oct 21, OpenAI and Google Cloud announced a partnership bringing OpenAI frontier models and Codex agentic workflows into Google Cloud Model Garden, transacted through Google Cloud Marketplace so enterprises can draw down existing GCP commitments. OpenAI models will also come to Google Antigravity and Gemini Agent soon. General availability is planned in the coming weeks, and Microsoft remains OpenAI's primary cloud partner. After AWS, this puts OpenAI models on all three major US clouds.
Infrastructure14d ago
Google Cloud Open-Sources TorchTPU: Native PyTorch on Google TPU Hardware with Day-Zero vLLM and SGLang Support
Google Cloud officially open-sourced TorchTPU, enabling native, zero-compilation-barrier PyTorch execution directly on Google Cloud TPU hardware (TPU v5p and TPU v6e). Overcoming the legacy friction of PyTorch/XLA's rigid graph compilation and dynamic-shape stalls, TorchTPU supports native PyTorch eager execution and custom Triton/C++ kernels. Leading high-throughput serving engines vLLM and SGLang announced immediate Day-0 support. Concurrently, Google Cloud introduced OpenAI models and Codex into its Vertex Model Garden, becoming the first hyperscaler to offer all three top frontier closed models.
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