Google launches Gemini enterprise agents

Google launched Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next ’26, turning Vertex AI into a broader system for building, running and governing AI agents. (cloud.google.com) Google said the new platform combines model selection, model tuning and agent-building tools with new orchestration, DevOps, integration and security features. The company described it as a full stack for agents rather than a single assistant. (cloud.google.com) (blog.google) In Google’s updated product map, Gemini Enterprise becomes the employee-facing app, while Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is the developer layer underneath it. Google also said customers can use Google-built, custom-built and third-party agents in the same environment. (cloud.google.com 1) (cloud.google.com 2) An AI agent is software that can take a goal, break it into steps and call tools or data sources to finish the job. Google’s pitch is that companies now need systems to manage many agents at once, with shared controls, identity and monitoring. (blog.google) (docs.cloud.google.com) Google said the platform includes Agent Development Kit, or ADK, an open-source framework for building agents in Python, Go, TypeScript and Java. It also said the kit is designed to start with simple tool-using agents and expand into multi-agent systems. (docs.cloud.google.com) (youtube.com) The company is also pushing open plumbing between agents. Google said it is backing the Agent2Agent, or A2A, protocol so agents can communicate across different models and platforms instead of staying locked inside one vendor’s stack. (cloud.google.com 1) (cloud.google.com 2) That matters because many companies spent 2024 and 2025 buying isolated copilots for search, coding and customer support. Google is now selling a control plane for fleets of agents tied to enterprise data, security policy and workflow software. (blog.google 1) (blog.google 2) Google tied the launch to newer Gemini models and infrastructure announced at the same event, including Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.1 Flash Image. The company said Agent Platform is built to work with those models alongside customer data and existing cloud systems. (blog.google) (blog.google) The closing message from Google was operational, not experimental: the question has shifted from whether a company can build one agent to how it governs thousands. Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is Google’s answer to that management problem. (blog.google)