What we announced in streaming AI at Next ‘26

Google Cloud announces new streaming AI capabilities at Next '26 to address real-time context challenges in agentic AI systems.

• •Pub/Sub AI Inference, Pub/Sub Bigtable subscriptions, and BigQuery continuous queries now available to reduce context lag
• •Unified streaming platform includes Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, Bigtable, and Kafka for fully managed data ingestion and processing
• •Model Context Protocol (MCP) support enables agents to directly manage Pub/Sub, Kafka, Bigtable, and BigQuery resources
• •Event-driven autonomous agents can be deployed within Dataflow pipelines for massive scalability with hundreds of concurrent agent sessions
• •Dataflow Unified embeddings enable real-time vector generation and storage in Cloud Spanner and AlloyDB for semantic search and RAG