What is Google Cloud?
Google Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google, including the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for building and managing AI agents. Habibbhai noted “agent washing” in the industry and emphasized that governance, security, and compliance are foundational for agentic AI, and should not require extra payment (Apr 2026). Clay Bavor speculated the market for AI agents may resemble an Uber-like marketplace (Jul 2026).
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Google Cloud posted 82% year-over-year revenue growth, described as unprecedented in the history of cloud providers.
“If you look at Google Cloud, they posted 82% year-over-year revenue growth, which is something we've never seen in the history of these cloud providers.”Jason Calacanis · 8 Aug 2026
Gemini Enterprise (Google Cloud) enabled Macy's to deploy a fully voice-activated customer-facing agent in 4 weeks, from zero, on their website.
“How Macy's live built on the Gemini Enterprise customer experience platform went from nothing to a fully voice-activated agent on their website in 4 weeks, right?”Riyaz Habibbhai · 24 Apr 2026
Much of what is being marketed as agentic AI is 'agent washing', rebranded legacy capabilities with no substantive new agentic functionality, according to a Google Cloud executive.
“There's a lot of quote-unquote agent washing that's happening out there.”Riyaz Habibbhai · 24 Apr 2026
Riyaz Habibbhai argues customers should not pay extra to adopt agentic AI on top of existing governance and security foundations.
“Governance, security, compliance, these are foundation for you to go agentic. And we fundamentally believe you shouldn't have to pay extra to go agentic, right?”Riyaz Habibbhai · 24 Apr 2026
Google Cloud's position is that governance, security, and compliance should be bundled into agentic AI offerings at no extra charge, pushing back on the industry norm of charging premium tiers for agentic features.
“Governance, security, compliance, these are foundation for you to go agentic. And we fundamentally believe you shouldn't have to pay extra to go agentic, right?”Riyaz Habibbhai · 24 Apr 2026
Clay Bavor argues the AI customer service market will settle into a duopoly resembling Uber and Lyft, not a winner-take-most dynamic like cloud infrastructure.
“My hunch is it will be more like an Uber lift market.”Clay Bavor · 4 Jul 2026
Hugging Face flagged as a likely acquisition target for AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure at its current valuation.
“I do think AWS, Google Cloud or Azure will buy this in a heartbeat for that amount of money.”Jason Calacanis · 25 Aug 2026
Google Cloud earns roughly 30 percent operating margins on compute it resells to Anthropic, per Harry Stebbings.
“Every dollar of every piece of compute that you give to Google cloud turns into 30% operating margins in a day because they can sell it to entropic.”Harry Stebbings · 13 Aug 2026