Overview
- Google, which unveiled the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Wednesday at Cloud Next 2026 in Las Vegas, pitched it as a single hub to build, run, and govern AI agents at scale.
- The platform evolves Vertex AI by adding agent orchestration, a central Agent Registry, cryptographic Agent Identity, an Agent Gateway for policy enforcement, anomaly detection, and an Agent Simulation tool for pre‑deployment stress tests.
- A new Agentic Data Cloud introduces a Cross‑Cloud Lakehouse so teams can query data in Amazon Web Services today, with Microsoft Azure next, without copying data or paying egress fees.
- Security features expand through Agentic Defense that links Google’s threat intelligence and SecOps with Wiz’s AI security platform, including Wiz’s Red agents for validating risks, Blue agents for investigations, and Green agents for automatic code fixes.
- Eighth‑generation TPUs arrive as TPU 8t for large‑scale training and TPU 8i for low‑latency inference, and early users such as FairPrice Group and Macquarie Bank report production deployments that speed work and cut hours of manual tasks.