The most interesting startups showcased at Google Cloud Next

Google held its Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas this week, where it announced dozens of new features like its next generation AI processing chip, called Ironwood, and its latest AI model Gemini 2.5 Flash. It also announced a long list of AI startups that have signed to use its cloud. Among them are some of the most watched startups in the world. As we previously reported, this list includes Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the startup founded by OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. It also includes: Anysphere, which makes the uber popular AI-powered code editor Cursor. Google says Cursor is using Anthropic’s Claude models on Google Cloud. Cursor was recently valued at $10 billion, sources have told TechCrunch. Its biggest rival is probably GitHub CoPilot, so that would make Microsoft one of its top competitors. Hebbia uses AI to search large documents and answer questions, which has made it a hit in the legal industry. Andreessen Horowitz led, while I ... Read full article.