“Even customers that adhere to the secret and top secret U.S. government classification levels will be able to use Gemini through an air-gapped version of Google Distributed Cloud that’s disconnected from the internet.”

Google will let companies run Gemini in their own data centers, including air-gapped classified ones. Its two main AI rivals refuse to do that. Google holds 8% of cloud infrastructure, behind Amazon and Microsoft. Third place sells what the leaders will not.