Google announces 'Workspace Intelligence' and TPU 8t + 8i chips

Key Points:

• Google introduced Workspace Intelligence at Cloud Next 2026, a system leveraging advanced Gemini reasoning to provide personalized, context-aware assistance across Workspace apps like Gmail, Docs, and Chat, enhancing productivity by understanding user work styles and project contexts.
• Workspace Intelligence powers new features such as AI Inbox and AI Overviews in Gmail, “Ask Gemini” in Google Chat for complex task execution, and enhanced content creation capabilities in Docs, Slides, and Sheets that maintain company branding and style consistency.
• The system integrates deeply with user workflows, retrieving relevant emails, chats, files, and web information to generate professional drafts and automate tasks, effectively acting as a background intelligence layer without requiring explicit user interaction.
• Google also announced the eighth generation of Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), introducing two specialized architectures: TPU 8t for training with massive scale and improved performance, and TPU 8i for inference, offering significantly better efficiency and reduced latency for running models.
• TPU 8t features a superpod with 9,600 chips and 2 petabytes of memory delivering 121 ExaFlops of compute, while TPU 8i enhances memory architecture and CPU integration to optimize model serving and support advanced Mixture of Expert models with reduced lag and improved scalability.