Summary

• At Cloud Next 2026, Google revealed that it is trying to build a broad enterprise platform for creating, deploying, managing, securing, and scaling agents across an organization.
• At the center of the announcements was Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, an overhaul of the company’s Vertex AI toolset that brings together a comprehensive suite of capabilities for building, running, and securing agents in enterprise environments.
• Google also expanded Gemini Enterprise itself, positioning it as an entry point for both developers and end-users who want to create and use agentic applications.
• In addition to its enterprise-focused announcements, Google also introduced several agentic capabilities aimed at improving individual user productivity.

The rise of AI-powered agents inside business organizations has quickly evolved from an intriguing possibility into an inevitable next step in enterprise computing. Not surprisingly, the companies building the technologies to power those agents - including Google (

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