Google Cloud named Replit its 2026 AI Tooling Partner of the Year, recognizing the platform now used by more than 50 million people across 85% of the Fortune 500. The award follows the launch of Replit's Agent 4, which the company says is 10x faster than Agent 3 and runs multiple agents in parallel. Replit is available on the Google Cloud Marketplace, integrated with Cloud Run, Kubernetes Engine, and BigQuery.
Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro differ mainly in speed versus reasoning depth, both offering 1M-token context windows and native availability in Vapi for voice agents. Flash returns its first token in 0.21–0.37 seconds at 163 tokens per second and costs $0.15/$0.60 per million input/output tokens, while Pro costs $1.25/$10 and adds a Deep Think mode, with a 2M-token window planned.
Vapi outlines how to pick among four Gemini models for voice agents: Gemini 1.0 Pro for predictable, compliance-friendly flows at $0.50 input and $2.00 output per million tokens, Gemini 1.5 Flash for high-volume work with a 1M token context window, Gemini 1.5 Pro for deep reasoning with a 2M token window and 99.7% long-context retrieval accuracy, and Gemini 2.0 Flash for native tool calling.
Suno used Modal to scale inference and batch pre-processing across thousands of GPUs, bringing its music generation model to market four months early instead of hiring engineers to build and maintain infrastructure. The team ran batch pre-processing with a few short Python scripts and no config files, then expanded to model deployment with HTTP-exposed functions and chained inference across multiple models and containers. Modal's auto-scaling to thousands of GPUs handled holiday demand spikes without long-term GPU reservations.