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OCT. 20, 2026 / AI
TorchTPU integrates a native torch.device("tpu") backend directly into PyTorch, allowing developers to train large-scale models on Google Cloud TPUs without rewriting code in JAX. The TorchTitan TPU fork enhances this with production-grade scaling primitives like SimpleFSDP, Graph Trainer, and custom Pallas kernels that achieve high Model Flops Utilization (MFU) across dense and MoE architectures. Developers can leverage these battle-tested optimization playbooks, recipes, and the Hugging Face modeling backend to efficiently scale their own workloads on TPU infrastructure.
OCT. 20, 2026 / AI
This post announces native PyTorch backends for vLLM and SGLang powered by TorchTPU, enabling developers to run and optimize serving workloads using familiar PyTorch tools. Built in collaboration with open-source project maintainers, these engines include optimized TPU kernel implementations, production-ready features like KV cache management with TPU Sync, and disaggregated serving. Public benchmarks demonstrate state-of-the-art performance and industry-leading cost efficiency on Ironwood TPU across long-context and agentic workloads.
OCT. 19, 2026 / Mobile
Meet the LiteRT Tensor API: giving developers native C++ control over the model graph to unify end-to-end ML computations on heterogeneous edge hardware.
OCT. 15, 2026 / AI
A practical engineering guide and reference architecture for establishing continuous evaluation pipelines for multi-turn AI agents using Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Google ADK, and OpenInference standards.
OCT. 15, 2026 / AI
The google/adk-recipes repository unifies Agent Development Kit (ADK) resources into three structured layers—core/, plugins/, and contrib/—serving as a single source of truth for building AI agents. Developers can leverage reference patterns, install modular vertical skills (such as retail product search and virtual try-on) directly into their coding assistants, and deploy production-ready services across multiple languages. This cohesive structure streamlines the entire workflow from initial scaffolding to full deployment on Google Cloud infrastructure.
OCT. 14, 2026 / AI
Apigee hybrid 1.17.0 introduces native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, enabling the MCP data plane to run directly within your own Kubernetes cluster. This architecture ensures that AI agent request traffic and tool execution remain entirely inside your infrastructure while pulling configuration updates from the control plane. Developers can expose OpenAPI 3.0.x specifications as discoverable MCP tools, leverage existing security policies and API products, and trace end-to-end requests using W3C trace context headers.
OCT. 13, 2026 / Gemini
How our engineering team ran Gemini 4 Argon unattended overnight with .agents/skills and /goal mode to cut in-memory session prep overhead by 40% in long sessions and speed up cold imports by 21% in Google's open-source Python Agent Development Kit (ADK).
OCT. 13, 2026 / AI
Gemini 4 Argon is a general-purpose physical reasoning model designed to enhance workflows across the robotics stack with advanced capabilities in physical understanding, code generation, and visual-semantic reasoning. Developers can access and integrate Argon across Google's developer platforms—including Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, and Google Antigravity—to build and test sophisticated robotic applications. By leveraging simulation tools like MuJoCo and code-as-policies, engineers can seamlessly transition from real-world data or sketches to physically verified robot control and self-improvement workflows.
OCT. 8, 2026 / Mobile
Google AI Edge has introduced ML Drift, a high-performance, universal GPU compute framework designed to accelerate on-device AI and machine learning inference. By abstracting the complexities of hardware and low-level APIs—including OpenGL ES, OpenCL, Metal, and WebGPU—ML Drift enables developers to build real-time, interactive ML experiences, from sophisticated video effects to generative AI, across mobile and desktop platforms.
OCT. 7, 2026 / AI
Google is launching the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server in public preview. This new toolset provides a canonical, machine-readable way for AI assistants and agentic platforms to search and retrieve up-to-date documentation across Firebase, Google Cloud, Android, and more. By using the official MCP server, developers can connect tools directly to Google’s documentation corpus, ensuring that AI-generated code and guidance are based on authoritative, real-time context.
