Overview
- Google introduced the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next on Wednesday, pitching a full system to build and run autonomous “agentic” AI that can pursue goals and act across business systems.
- The platform adds cryptographic IDs for every agent plus an Agent Registry and Agent Gateway, with Model Armor and Agent Anomaly Detection to audit actions, enforce policies, and spot risky behavior in real time.
- Google committed $750 million to a partner fund and will place forward‑deployed engineers with major consultancies to help customers identify use cases, prototype quickly, and deploy agents into live workflows.
- Merck signed a multi‑year partnership to roll out Gemini Enterprise across research, manufacturing, and commercial teams, planning up to $1 billion in spending with Google and on‑site support from Google Cloud and DeepMind engineers.
- New TPU 8t and 8i chips and an Agentic Data Cloud target lower costs and easier data access across clouds, as Google argues that its combined model, data platform, and infrastructure stack gives enterprises a cleaner path to scale.