Multi-Agent workflows, GenMedia and Best of Next

[Google Cloud Startups]

Master multi-agent workflows & AI landscape for busy founders.

May 2026 Google Cloud Startups Newsletter May 14 | Best of NEXT for Startups Join us for a digital wrap-up curated specifically for busy founders. We’ve distilled the standout moments from Google Cloud Next–from mastering GenMedia and multi-agent workflows to decoding the 2026 AI landscape–into one high-impact session. Featured New Future of AI report Read our newly launched generative media report for startups to learn how to evolve your product strategy and build a defensible moat in an automated world. Applications open: Google for Startups Accelerators (AI for Energy) Applications are now open for our upcoming Google for Startups Accelerators in North America and Europe/Israel focused on AI for Energy application! Eligible startups are encouraged to apply today: North America Europe/Israel Accelerating Gemma AI Gemma 4 already gave startups the power to run highly capable AI on standard devices without the massive compute overhead. Today, deploying those models just got significantly faster. Upcoming Events Apply by May 13 | Less than 2 weeks to join the Gemini Startup Forum: Cybersecurity Last chance for Seed to Series A defense founders to join our 2-day immersive event in September. Get direct access to Google and DeepMind experts and learn how to integrate Gemini AI into your product roadmap. Apply by June 5 | Join the Google for Startups AI Agents Challenge Ready to build the next generation of autonomous AI? Join the Google for Startups AI Agents Challenge to claim $500 in cloud credits and compete for a $90,000 prize pool. Just choose a track tailored to your startup's stage. June 9 - June 18 | Startup School: Agentic AI Transition your AI from novelty to utility. Learn to build robust, real-world workflows with the Gemini Live API, multimodal RAG, and high-speed vision agents. AMER / EMEA: Classes will be at: 5pm GMT+1 / 9am PDT / 12pm EDT EMEA / APAC: Classes will be at: 9am GMT+1 / 1:30pm IST / 4pm SGT / 5pm KST/JST June 10 | Exclusive Founder Breakfast: The Frontier of AI with Google DeepMind & Lightspeed Join Clément Farabet (Google DeepMind) and Antoine Moyroud (Lightspeed) in London to explore the cutting edge of generative AI and what Gemini's infrastructure means for your startup. Editors Picks The top startup announcements from Next ’26: See how Google Cloud's unified AI platform is eliminating technical debt and providing the ultimate foundation for founders to build the next generation of AI agents. Powering the next era of agentic experiences: Google’s new geospatial intelligence layer provides AI agents with factual grounding and interactive mapping capabilities allowing agents to reason with spatial data into intuitive, location-specific visuals. Three new ways to build with real-world imagery and AI: At Cloud Next, Google introduced new AI tools for imagery products and Google Earth to help planners analyze real-world data faster. Mastering visual document understanding with AI: Stop relying on text-only pipelines. Explore a simple, four-step blueprint for building highly scalable, cost-effective document processing systems using Gemini. Meet the 2026 Gemini Startup Forum cohort: Explore the 102 global startups collaborating with Google DeepMind and Cloud experts to scale their products. Featured Startup Magnific (formerly Freepik) | The AI Creative Platform Magnific CEO Joaquin Cuenca Abela was recently interviewed by J Cal on TWiST AI Basics to discuss how generative AI is drastically lowering the cost and time it takes for startups to scale their creative output. ✨ Featured Startup Perks and Partners ✨ Xverse API: Get 25% Off Xverse API Pro or Enterprise Tier to power your apps and scale integrations. Allium: Save up to 25% on Allium Explorer for data analytics queries. MixPanel: Power your decisions with a free year of Mixpanel's full analytics suite($150k+ value). Unlimited seats, 500K session replays, 1B events, and more! Access Perks Now   Get support. Redeem your credits for a Cloud Customer Care plan and submit a technical support ticket directly from your console. Technical questions? Explore the Ask the Expert archive and hear Google Cloud specialists answer user-submitted questions. Are you a subscriber? If not, sign up to receive the Startup newsletter from Google Cloud. Thanks for reading, The Google for Startups Team © 2026 Google LLC. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043. All rights reserved. This email was sent to cloudtotal...@googlegroups.com because you indicated that you want to receive information about Google for Startups. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, unsubscribe at any time.