Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at the Google Cloud Next conference on Wednesday, positioning the tech giant to compete directly with Amazon’s Bedrock AgentCore and Microsoft Foundry in the enterprise AI agent market.
The platform, unveiled in 2026, is designed for building and managing AI agents at scale. In a notable strategic decision, Google has tailored the Agent Platform specifically for IT and technical teams rather than general business users.
This technical focus reflects two key factors: AI agents have shown the most maturity in technical tasks like coding, and security concerns remain significant as enterprises adopt this emerging technology. Business users, meanwhile, are directed toward Google’s separate Gemini Enterprise app, which was introduced in the fall of 2025.
The Gemini Enterprise app enables non-technical employees to work with agents built by IT departments or create their own for tasks including scheduling meetings, executing trigger-based processes, creating shortcuts for repetitive work, and creating or editing files without switching between applications.
Google emphasized that both tools can access multiple AI models beyond its own technology. The platform supports Google’s Gemini large language model and Nano Banana 2 image generator, as well as Anthropic’s full Claude model family. This includes Claude Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku—representing flagship, reasoning, and lower-cost options respectively—including the new Opus 4.7 that launched last week.
The announcement represents Google’s major play in the rapidly evolving enterprise AI agent space, where companies are racing to provide businesses with tools to automate complex workflows and boost productivity through artificial intelligence.
Source: TechCrunch