Home - Google Developers Blog Community/Events Learn Blog YouTube Search Community/Events Learn Blog YouTube Featured articles Mobile Web AI Cloud Cloud Homepage AI Homepage Web Homepage Mobile Homepage Announcements Solutions Introducing Credentio: Open Source C++ Library for C2PA Content Credentials from Google Credentio is a newly released, open-source C++ library from Google that allows developers to integrate high-performance, local-first validation of C2PA Content Credentials into their client and server applications. By processing assets entirely locally with a highly optimized memory footprint, the library delivers instant validation verdicts for multi-gigabyte media files without incurring cloud latency, bandwidth costs, or data privacy risks. The library currently features deep manifest parsing alongside configurable trust list integration, and is available now on Google Source with future plans to support full credential generation and embedding. AI Cloud Cloud Homepage AI Homepage Case Studies Learn HeyGen x Google Cloud: Bringing Avatar IV to TPUs HeyGen ported their 18B+ parameter Avatar IV video generation model to Google Cloud's Trillium (v6e) TPUs via torchax and XLA, utilizing FSDP and Ulysses sequence parallelism across an eight-chip mesh. To achieve a 1.86x speedup for real-time streaming, the engineering team pipelined exposed all-to-all collectives, aligned sparse attention block sizes to eliminate mask padding, and bypassed softmax serial dependencies using a precomputed Cauchy-Schwarz upper bound. These custom Pallas kernel and compiler optimizations were deployed only after passing rigorous two-tier quality gates to guarantee byte-identical or mathematically equivalent pixel outputs. AI AI Homepage Announcements Learn Agent Plugins package your skills, tools, and more Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is a new, vendor-neutral directory specification—backed by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and others—for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into a single portable unit. By standardizing the manifest (plugin.json) and utilizing a fixed directory layout, it eliminates the need for developers to maintain separate wrappers or configurations to support different AI coding agents and IDEs. Google has officially joined as a Core Maintainer and already rolled out support in the Agents CLI and Data Agent Kit, allowing developers to start building and distributing interoperable plugins today. Web AI AI Homepage Web Homepage How-To Guides Announcements Learn Mastering Edge AI on Raspberry Pi with LiteRT and Gemma Deploying secure, real-time Edge AI on Raspberry Pi is now simplified using LiteRT and lightweight Gemma open models. LiteRT optimizes CPU and GPU performance, delivering fast token speeds for models like Gemma4, enabling real-time local reasoning for robotics. Developers can quickly convert, quantize, and run these models using the lightweight LiteRT CLI tool. Support for Hailo AI accelerators is also coming very soon. AI Cloud Cloud Homepage AI Homepage Community Business and Leadership Solutions Learn Explore Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering As AI coding assistants shift the developer's primary role from writing boilerplate to reviewing and maintaining systems, language choice becomes critical for long-term architectural integrity. Go directly addresses this new paradigm by utilizing its strict compiler, integrated toolchain, and uncompromising readability to provide deterministic guardrails that help AI models self-correct and generate highly standardized code. By enforcing ecosystem-wide consistency and strict backward compatibility, the Go platform empowers engineering teams to efficiently verify, optimize, and maintain high-velocity, AI-generated output in production environments. AI Cloud Cloud Homepage AI Homepage How-To Guides Announcements Best Practices Solutions Learn Explore Model routing with Google Cloud API Gateway Google Cloud API Gateway now offers a model routing feature in Public Preview, allowing developers to dynamically route traffic to models like Gemini, Claude, or OpenAI OSS-GPT without hardcoding endpoints or managing open-source proxies. Developers can easily configure these routing rules directly within their OpenAPI 3.x specifications by mapping virtual model names to specific backend targets on a shared host. Once deployed, the Gateway acts as a serverless ingress layer that accepts standard OpenAI-compatible requests, automatically transcodes the payload to the native schema of the target model, and routes the traffic on the fly. AI AI Homepage Best Practices Industry Trends Solutions Learn Scaling real-time AI agents with session-aware load balancing Real-time AI agents break traditional request-response load balancing paradigms because they rely on long-lived, stateful bidirectional streams that obscure true server capacity. To solve this, developers must implement application-level session tracking directly within the runtime to accurately measure the committed concurrent workload of active conversations. By feeding these precise session counts alongside standard CPU utilization metrics into a hybrid routing algorithm, infrastructure can effectively distribute stateful AI traffic and prevent individual backend bottlenecks. AI Cloud Cloud Homepage AI Homepage Tutorials Learn Enable on-demand expertise with Agent Skills in Genkit Go To prevent context window bloat and reduce token consumption, Genkit Go introduces Agent Skills based on a progressive disclosure architecture. Developers can package specialized instructions, scripts, and references into modular SKILL.md bundles where only the frontmatter metadata is initially exposed to the agent's system prompt. When a task matches the skill's description, Genkit's middleware dynamically loads the full instruction body and associated assets, ensuring the model accesses precise workflows exactly when needed. Latest blogs AUG. 13, 2026 Introducing Credentio: Open Source C++ Library for C2PA Content Credentials from Google Credentio is a newly released, open-source C++ library from Google that allows developers to integrate high-performance, local-first validation of C2PA Content Credentials into their client and server applications. By processing assets entirely locally with a highly optimized memory footprint, the library delivers instant validation verdicts for multi-gigabyte media files without incurring cloud latency, bandwidth costs, or data privacy risks. The library currently features deep manifest parsing alongside configurable trust list integration, and is available now on Google Source with future plans to support full credential generation and embedding. AUG. 13, 2026 HeyGen x Google Cloud: Bringing Avatar IV to TPUs HeyGen ported their 18B+ parameter Avatar IV video generation model to Google Cloud's Trillium (v6e) TPUs via torchax and XLA, utilizing FSDP and Ulysses sequence parallelism across an eight-chip mesh. To achieve a 1.86x speedup for real-time streaming, the engineering team pipelined exposed all-to-all collectives, aligned sparse attention block sizes to eliminate mask padding, and bypassed softmax serial dependencies using a precomputed Cauchy-Schwarz upper bound. These custom Pallas kernel and compiler optimizations were deployed only after passing rigorous two-tier quality gates to guarantee byte-identical or mathematically equivalent pixel outputs. AUG. 11, 2026 Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering As AI coding assistants shift the developer's primary role from writing boilerplate to reviewing and maintaining systems, language choice becomes critical for long-term architectural integrity. Go directly addresses this new paradigm by utilizing its strict compiler, integrated toolchain, and uncompromising readability to provide deterministic guardrails that help AI models self-correct and generate highly standardized code. By enforcing ecosystem-wide consistency and strict backward compatibility, the Go platform empowers engineering teams to efficiently verify, optimize, and maintain high-velocity, AI-generated output in production environments. 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