Google makes interesting choices with new agent-building tool for enterprises

Google CEO Sundar Pichai opened the Google Cloud Next conference via video on Wednesday to announce one of the company’s biggest new products, the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Google’s tools are designed for building and managing agents at scale. This is Google’s answer to Amazon’s Bedrock AgentCore and Microsoft Foundry.

Google has made an interesting choice with this tool, considering that AI, especially agents, is the most advanced in technical tasks such as coding, and security is still a big concern because the technology is so new to enterprises. The agent platform is specifically aimed at IT and technical teams.

Meanwhile, business people are headed to what Google calls the Gemini Enterprise app, introduced in the fall. Google says you can work with agents built by your IT department or build your own for tasks like scheduling meetings, running trigger-based processes, creating shortcuts for repetitive tasks, and creating or editing files without switching apps.

Google also highlighted that the underlying models these tools utilize include Google’s own Gemini LLM and Nano Banana 2 image generator, as well as Anthropic’s Claude. The company announced support for Claude Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, namely flagship, Reasoning, and budget models, including the new Opus 4.7, which launched last week.