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

Google CEO Sundar Pichai opened the Google Cloud Next conference on Wednesday with a video announcing one of the company’s biggest new products: Gemini Enterprise Agent platform.

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

Considering that AI, and agents in particular, are the most advanced in technical tasks like coding, and that the technology is so new to the enterprise that security remains a real concern, Google has made an interesting choice with this tool. Agent Platform is primarily aimed at IT and technical teams.

The business people, meanwhile, are focusing on what Google calls its Gemini Enterprise app, which was introduced in the fall. They can work with IT-built agents or build their own agents for tasks like scheduling meetings, running trigger-based processes, creating shortcuts for repetitive tasks, or creating and editing files without having to switch apps, Google says.

Google also highlighted that the underlying models these tools leverage 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 – in other words flagship, Reasoner and lower-end models, including the new Opus 4.7 launched last week.