Organization

Google (Alphabet)

Google (Alphabet) is an AI model developer and research lab headquartered in Mountain View, California1. This catalog lists 9 open model releases and 10 software projects from Google (Alphabet), under licenses including the Apache License 2.0 (adk-python) and the Health AI Developer Foundations Terms of Use.

Documented roles: Model developer · Research lab · Cloud provider · Developer platform · Consumer products

Google is the largest of the businesses that make up Alphabet Inc. Alphabet reports Google through its Google Services and Google Cloud segments, and reports centralized research and development on frontier AI models as Alphabet-level activities. This record covers Google and its parent Alphabet together; Google DeepMind has its own record as a research unit.1

Last reviewedSep 29, 2026Entry updated Oct 1, 2026

Using this organization’s offerings

Ownership, delivery, and openness answer different questions. Publicly traded does not mean open source; privately held does not mean closed.

Intended users

Google documents the Gemini API for developers building with its models and points enterprise deployments to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The Gemini API terms require users to be 18 or older and limit Google AI Studio and the Gemini API to professional or business use, not consumer use.7 8 9Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

Hosted and self-hosted access

Gemini models are offered as hosted services through the Gemini app, Google AI Studio, the Gemini API (free and paid tiers), and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Downloadable Gemma models are covered in the Google DeepMind record.10 8 7Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

Restrictions and review limits

Google states that free-tier Gemini API content is used to improve its products and may be read by human reviewers, while paid-tier content is not used for product improvement. The terms require paid services for apps offered in the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK, and apply Google's Prohibited Use Policy. This profile is not a complete product or rights audit.8 9Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

Documentation and pricing

Gemini API documentation (external site: ai.google.dev)7Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Gemini Developer API pricing (external site: ai.google.dev)8Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Gemini API additional terms of service (external site: ai.google.dev)9Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

Key facts

Website: about.google (external site: about.google)
Legal name: Alphabet Inc. (parent and SEC registrant); Google LLC (subsidiary)1 2
Ownership (separate from openness): Publicly traded
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
Legal form: Alphabet Inc. is a Delaware corporation whose Class A and Class C shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market; Google LLC is listed as an Alphabet subsidiary organized in Delaware.1 2
Headquarters: Mountain View, California1
Founded: 19981
Sectors: Frontier models, Cloud, Open models, Research
Careers: Careers page (external site: google.com)

What is and isn’t public

An evidence-based summary of what this catalog has documented. It is not a verdict on the organization as a whole.

Google offers Gemini models through hosted products, including the Gemini API, the Gemini app, and Google Cloud. The Gemma open-weight models are credited to Google DeepMind, which has its own record. This catalog does not describe Google as open overall.3 4 6

Products

Documented products and how they are delivered. Each row links to the official page.

Hosted model products

Labeled Hosted product/API — this describes how a documented product is delivered (hosted access). It does not determine whether underlying weights or code are open; assess the specific release and its licenses.

Google (Alphabet): hosted model products
Product	Kind	Documented delivery and access	Reviewed
Gemini API (external site: ai.google.dev)	Hosted model API	Developer API for Google's Gemini and other generative models. API keys are created in Google AI Studio, and the documentation shows client code for Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, and REST.3	Sep 29, 2026
Gemini app (external site: gemini.google)	Assistant app	Consumer AI assistant on the web, Android, and iOS, with a free plan and paid Google AI subscription plans that raise usage limits.4	Sep 29, 2026

Other products

Google (Alphabet): other products
Product	Kind	Documented delivery and access	Reviewed
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) (external site: cloud.google.com)	Cloud platform	Google Cloud platform, previously named Vertex AI, for building, deploying, and governing AI agents and applications. Its Model Garden offers Google models such as Gemini, third-party models, and open models such as Gemma.5	Sep 29, 2026

Cataloged artifacts

Records in the Open Models & Tools directory that list this organization as a maintainer or publisher.

Model families (3)

GemmaModel family
MedGemmaModel family
TimesFMModel family

Model releases (9)

EmbeddingGemma 2Model releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
EmbeddingGemma 300MModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
Gemma 4 12B UnifiedModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
Gemma 4 26B A4BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
Gemma 4 31BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
MedGemma 1.5 4BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
MedGemma 27B (multimodal)Model releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
TimesFM 2.5 200MModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
TimesFM 3.0Model releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight

Frameworks (6)

Agent Development Kit (ADK)SoftwareAvailability: Public
Agent2Agent (A2A) ProtocolSoftwareAvailability: Public
JAXSoftwareAvailability: Public
KerasSoftwareAvailability: Public
OpenXLASoftwareAvailability: Public
TensorFlowSoftwareAvailability: Public

Runtimes (3)

Gemini CLISoftwareAvailability: Public
LiteRTSoftwareAvailability: Public
llm-dSoftwareAvailability: Public

Research stacks (1)

MaxTextSoftwareAvailability: Public

Organizational relationships

Research unit: Google DeepMind
Subsidiary: Waymo

Units and subsidiaries have their own records and are counted separately from their parent.

Notable documented facts

Google was incorporated in California in September 1998. A 2015 holding company reorganization made Alphabet Inc. the successor issuer to Google.1
Alphabet's fiscal 2025 annual report says Google Cloud customers can use GPUs as well as Google's own custom-built Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), including the seventh-generation Ironwood TPU.1
The Google Cloud AI development platform formerly named Vertex AI is now presented as Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.5

In the news

Dated, sourced updates in this catalog's news that mention this entry.

Oct 20, 2026 · Release
llm-d 1.0 released with flow control, router high availability and a v1 configuration API
On October 20, 2026 llm-d project contributors announced llm-d 1.0, a release of the open distributed inference project that an IBM newsroom announcement says was founded in 2025 by Red Hat, IBM, Google Cloud, CoreWeave and NVIDIA and is now governed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The v1.0.0 release notes on GitHub list priority- and fairness-aware flow control with controlled load shedding, router high availability with hot standby and safe rolling updates, and the router configuration API graduating to v1. The notes also say the disaggregated prefill-decode guide now requires LeaderWorkerSet v0.11.1 or newer. The announcement says Google Cloud is integrating llm-d 1.0 into Google Kubernetes Engine; it does not give a date for the CNCF governance change. USASI has not tested this release.
Oct 19, 2026 · Release
JAX 0.12.0 adds a proxy backend and removes jax.custom_remat
The JAX project published JAX v0.12.0 on GitHub on October 19, 2026. The release notes list new features including jax.lax.polynomial for polynomial evaluation, jax.custom_vjp.defremat for customizing rematerialization, a registered proxy backend that connects to an IFRT Proxy server such as Pathways on Cloud, jax.sharding.no_collectives, and support for DLPack 1.0. Breaking changes listed include the removal of jax.custom_remat in favor of jax.custom_vjp.defremat, a requirement on x86-64 for an Intel Haswell or newer CPU with AVX2 and FMA support, and a minimum of NumPy 2.2. USASI has not tested this release.
- Google (Alphabet)
- JAX
Oct 13, 2026 · Release
Google makes Gemini 4 Argon available to developers and to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers
On October 13, 2026 Google said developers can start building with Gemini 4 Argon on the paid tier of the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Android Studio, and that Google AI Ultra subscribers can try the model in AI Studio and in Google Antigravity. A separate post the same day says Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can now access Gemini 4 Argon in the Gemini app; it does not list countries. Google first announced the model on September 30, 2026 with a limited rollout to cyber defenders. Neither post mentions released weights; access is through hosted products and the API. USASI has not tested Gemini 4 Argon.
- Google (Alphabet)
Oct 12, 2026 · Governance
NVIDIA contributes Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to the Open Compute Project
In an October 12, 2026 blog post tied to the OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA said it contributed Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to the Open Compute Project through its MGX architecture. The post says NVIDIA joined AMD, Google, and Meta at OCP to publish a new open specification, and describes the Open Data Center Specification v0.7 as a blueprint for AI factory facility design. It says the OCP Grid Resilience Specification was published by Google, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA, and that NVIDIA expanded DSX OS with open-source components for configuring networks and validating clusters, without naming a license for them. USASI has not reviewed the contributed designs or specifications.
Oct 8, 2026 · Policy
White House science summit lists industry partners in the Genesis Mission Consortium
On October 8, 2026 the White House published a fact sheet on science initiatives announced at its "Science: A New Golden Age" summit. It says eleven industry partners committed SI-for-science tools and compute credits to the Genesis Mission Consortium, and names NVIDIA, AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, AMP, Emerald AI, AWS, Armada, Crusoe, and Micron. The same fact sheet says NIH, DOE, and Biohub launched a virtual biology initiative to build data and models for virtual cells. The fact sheet describes announcements and commitments rather than an executive order.

U.S. eligibility

How this record meets the catalog’s published eligibility policy.

Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

Alphabet Inc., the parent covered by this record, is a Delaware corporation. The cover page of its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K gives its principal executive offices as 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California. Exhibit 21.01 to the same filing lists Google LLC as a Delaware subsidiary of Alphabet.1 2

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Eligibility policy

Sources

1.
Alphabet Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 (external site: sec.gov)
Alphabet Inc. (via U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR) · Filing · published Feb 5, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
2.
Exhibit 21.01 — Subsidiaries of the Registrant (Alphabet Inc. Form 10-K, fiscal 2025) (external site: sec.gov)
Alphabet Inc. (via U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR) · Filing · published Feb 5, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
3.
Gemini API documentation (external site: ai.google.dev)
Google AI for Developers · Documentation · accessed Sep 29, 2026
4.
About the Gemini app (external site: gemini.google)
Google · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
5.
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) | Google Cloud (external site: cloud.google.com)
Google Cloud · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
6.
Gemma 4 model card (external site: ai.google.dev)
Google AI for Developers · Model card · accessed Sep 29, 2026
7.
Gemini API documentation (external site: ai.google.dev)
Google AI for Developers · Documentation · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026
8.
Gemini Developer API pricing (external site: ai.google.dev)
Google AI for Developers · Documentation · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026
9.
Gemini API Additional Terms of Service (external site: ai.google.dev)
Google AI for Developers · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026
10.
Google DeepMind models (external site: deepmind.google)
Google DeepMind · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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@misc{usasi_google,
  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {Google (Alphabet)},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/google/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-10-01}
}

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