Google Cloud announced the general availability of its new G4 virtual machines, powered by Nvidia's RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and AMD's EPYC Turin CPU platform. This upgrade is aimed at enterprise and industrial artificial intelligence applications, offering a significant performance increase for workloads like multi-modal AI inference, design, visualization, and robotics simulation. The new G4 instances provide up to nine times the throughput of the previous G2 instances, accelerating generative AI applications such as text-to-image creation and improving the speed of training and inference for large language models. On the same day, Oppenheimer maintained its 'Outperform' rating on Alphabet and increased its price target from $270 to $300, reflecting positive sentiment around the company's performance.