Google bets on agents

At Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas on April 22, 2026, Alphabet put AI agents at the center of its enterprise pitch by unveiling Gemini Enterprise. (finance.yahoo.com) Google rebranded and expanded Vertex AI into the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, adding governance, orchestration, DevOps and security features, the Google Cloud blog said. (cloud.google.com) Google told customers that scaling agents raises operational needs — engineers must manage agent invocation, tool permissions, observability and rollback as agents call services across an organization. (docs.cloud.google.com) Gemini Enterprise also includes admin observability controls, connector logs and audit trails designed to let IT teams trace agent actions across third‑party integrations. (docs.cloud.google.com) CEO Sundar Pichai wrote that “about 75% of all new code at Google is now AI‑generated and approved by engineers,” a jump from roughly 50% last fall. (blog.google) Pichai gave a concrete example, saying an internal code migration completed six times faster with agentic workflows, and he said Gemini saw 40% growth in paid monthly active users in Q1. (blog.google) Google described new developer tools inside the platform — Agent Studio (a low‑code UI), an upgraded Agent Development Kit (ADK), Agent Runtime for long‑running agents, and a Memory Bank for persistent context. (cloud.google.com) The platform will surface more than 200 models through Model Garden, including Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, Lyria 3, and support for third‑party models such as Anthropic’s Claude, Google said. (cloud.google.com) “We are now shifting to truly agentic workflows,” Pichai wrote, and Google said going forward it will deliver Vertex AI services and roadmap evolutions exclusively through the Agent Platform. (blog.google)