Google makes an interesting choice with its new agent building tool for enterprises

Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off the Google Cloud Next conference on Wednesday with a video in which he announced one of the company’s biggest new products: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Google’s tool is for building and managing agents at scale. It is Google’s answer to Amazon’s Bedrock AgentCore and Microsoft Foundry.

Given that AI, and especially agents, are at the forefront of technical tasks like coding, and the technology is so new to the enterprise that security remains a real concern, Google has made an interesting choice with this tool. The agent platform is specifically focused on IT and technical teams.

Business people, meanwhile, are directed toward what Google calls its Gemini enterprise app, which was introduced in the autumn. Google says they can work with agents built by IT or create their own for tasks like scheduling meetings, executing trigger-based processes, creating shortcuts for repetitive tasks, or creating and editing files without the need to switch apps.

Google also outlined that the underlying models these tools use include Google’s own Gemini LLM and Nano Banana 2 image generator, as well as Anthropic’s Cloud. The company announced support for Cloud Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku — in other words, the flagship, Reason, and low-cost models, including the new Opus 4.7 that launched last week.