Overview
- Google, which opened its Cloud Next conference on Wednesday in Las Vegas, rebranded Vertex AI as the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, introduced an Agentic Data Cloud, and unveiled eighth‑generation TPU chips for training and inference.
- The platform lets teams build and run long‑running agents with tools like Agent Studio and the Agent Development Kit, plus Agent Registry, Agent Runtime, Memory Bank, and agent‑to‑agent orchestration for multi‑step work.
- Agentic Data Cloud adds a cross‑cloud data layer that lets companies query information stored in Amazon Web Services, with Microsoft Azure support coming, without copying data out of those clouds or creating new silos.
- New safeguards assign each agent a cryptographic identity and enforce real‑time policies through Agent Gateway, with an Agentic Defense suite that integrates Google’s SecOps tools and Wiz to detect threats and keep actions auditable.
- Google is centering agents as its enterprise play as rivals push coding tools, with Sundar Pichai saying 75% of new Google code is now AI‑generated and OpenAI expanding Codex through consulting partners and onsite specialist teams.