Google Cloud announced significant enhancements to its Looker business intelligence platform at Google Cloud Next 2025. Key features include the expanded availability of Gemini in Looker, providing all platform users with access to conversational analytics, visualization assistance, and automated report generation.

Getting insights from your data is becoming more straightforward with Looker’s new conversational analytics feature, which is now available in preview. It’s designed so anyone can explore data simply by asking questions in natural language. Thanks to a collaboration with DeepMind, these capabilities are far more advanced than anything on the market today. The system doesn’t just perform the analysis; it also transparently explains its process, helping everyone understand how answers are generated and easily clarifies any potential confusion. Accuracy gets a significant boost too, improved by as much as two-thirds, thanks to Looker’s tightly integrated semantic layer. Additionally, developers gain access to a new conversational analytics API (also in preview) that enables the building of easy-to-use, chat-based data interactions directly into other applications and workflows.

Further enhancements include the introduction of Looker reports, delivering a streamlined reporting experience within the core Looker platform. Looker reports offer enhanced data storytelling, simplified exploration, and broader data connectivity, including connections to Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Importantly, this new capability integrates seamlessly with Looker’s Gemini integration, providing AI capabilities for the new reporting environment.