Google announces Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for IT teams

In short: Google has introduced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a new tool meant for IT teams to build and manage AI “agents” for companies.

What happened

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at the Google Cloud Next conference.

Google says the platform is for building and managing agents “at scale,” meaning across a whole company. An AI agent is software that can take actions for you, like scheduling meetings or creating files, based on instructions and rules (think of it like a digital assistant that can do tasks inside work tools).

Google is making a clear split between who uses what. The new Agent Platform is aimed at IT and other technical teams, the people who normally set up and secure company software. Business users are pointed to the Gemini Enterprise app, which Google introduced last fall. Google says those users can use agents made by IT, or create simpler ones themselves for everyday tasks like repetitive shortcuts and trigger-based processes (for example, “when this happens, do that”).

Google also said these tools can use different AI models. That includes Google’s own Gemini language model (a system trained to write and understand text), its Nano Banana 2 image generator (for creating images from prompts), and Anthropic’s Claude models, including Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku.

Why it matters

For many workers, this could change who gets to set up AI helpers at work. Google’s approach suggests companies may want IT involved first, especially because security and control are big concerns when software can take actions in business systems.

Source: TechCrunch AI