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At a glance

Google is part of Alphabet. This topic follows its AI research, Gemini models, Google DeepMind, cloud infrastructure and consumer products.

Focus: Gemini; Google DeepMind; Google Cloud
Reference: Google

Reviewed 19 October 2026. Dates retain the precision of the source; retrospective disclosures are identified in the event. Google Cloud and Alphabet revenue are separate reporting scopes; cloud revenue is not synonymous with AI ARR.

Company milestones

Revenue, funding, product launches and major company events, newest first. Expand the earlier milestones for more history.

Oct
2026
Gemini 4 Argon becomes broadly available
Google expands access through developer and enterprise APIs, AI Studio, Gemini and Search subscriptions following its initial restricted rollout.
Source: Google
Jul
2026
Google Cloud revenue grows 82%
Alphabet’s second-quarter release reports accelerating cloud demand for AI infrastructure and solutions. Alphabet’s total quarterly revenue is $119.8B; it is not all AI revenue.
Source: Alphabet earnings release

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Earlier revenue, financing and company milestones.

Jul
2025
Cloud reaches $13.6B in quarterly sales
Q2 Google Cloud revenue increases 32%, with growth across core infrastructure, AI products and Workspace.
Source: Alphabet
Dec
2023
Introduces Gemini
Google unveils a multimodal model family, connecting its research programs to consumer and developer products.
Source: Google
Apr
2023
Creates Google DeepMind
Google combines DeepMind and the Brain team to consolidate its frontier AI research effort.
Source: Google
Jun
2017
Publishes the Transformer architecture
Attention Is All You Need introduces the architecture underlying many later language models, including systems beyond Google.
Source: Google research paper
May
2017
Brings TPUs to Google Cloud
Cloud TPU infrastructure extends Google’s custom machine-learning hardware to outside developers and organizations.
Source: Google
Aug
2015
Announces the Alphabet holding structure
Google’s founders outline a reorganization separating Google’s core operating business from other long-term ventures.
Source: Google
1998
Google is founded
The search company later becomes the largest operating business within Alphabet.
Source: Alphabet annual report