Google bets on agents

Google repositioned AI agents as the core of its enterprise strategy at Cloud Next in Las Vegas on April 22, 2026. (finance.yahoo.com) At Cloud Next ’26 Google unveiled the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to build, scale, govern and optimize AI agents for businesses. (blog.google) The company also announced a $750 million partner fund to accelerate agentic AI development across its roughly 120,000‑member partner ecosystem. (googlecloudpresscorner.com) Google tied the agent push to new integrations with SAP to deploy multi‑agent AI inside SAP Customer Experience and with Salesforce to let agents execute end‑to‑end workflows across both platforms. (prnewswire.com) The SAP announcement said those integrations include bidirectional, zero‑copy access between the SAP Business Data Cloud and Google BigQuery so agents can act on live enterprise data without moving it. (prnewswire.com) Google first introduced an open Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to let domain‑specific agents interoperate, and partners including SAP and Salesforce have contributed to that effort. (developers.googleblog.com) Consulting partners amplified the push: Accenture said it has built more than 450 agents on Google Cloud, and KPMG has already pledged a $100 million investment in its Google Cloud practice. (newsroom.accenture.com) Industry commentators warned about potential "agent sprawl" and governance challenges; Google said Gemini Enterprise adds orchestration, security and governance features to manage large agent fleets. (theregister.com) Google and its partners said Gemini Enterprise will act as a central hub for multi‑agent coordination across customers' SAP and Google Cloud solutions as those integrations roll out through 2026. (prnewswire.com)