Startups are reinventing industry standards constantly and focusing on tackling the biggest challenge first.AI accelerates their execution and gives them new insights to act faster and iterate better.AI plays an increasing role in the offerings of startups and also how they build those offerings.More than 60% of funded gen AI startups are building on Google Cloud, which is being used by startups like Abstrakt, NextNet, and Ferret.NextNet uses Google Cloud Vertex AI and Gemini to analyze vast amounts of biomedical data and identify hidden relationships.Abstrakt, a customer experience enhancer, uses generative AI to evaluate sentiment in real-time to empower teams.Ferret.ai offers a transparency solution using AI to provide curated relationship intelligence and monitoring.Deploying back-end solutions like Vertex AI’s unified development platform benefits the speed to market of startups.Open ecosystem of models and APIs offer flexibility to startups as their needs and market dynamics evolve quickly.Google Cloud provides a secure, fast, scalable platform so startups can focus on the solutions that matter most to their users.