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Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as unified agent hub
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Google is done letting Vertex AI services sprawl across separate products — the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is now the single roof everything lives under, and that consolidation is the real news, not the feature list. Agent Designer, long-running agents, Projects, Skills, an Inbox for monitoring — the individual capabilities are fine, but the strategic move is forcing every future Vertex AI roadmap item through one hub. Enterprise customers get a cleaner governance story; competitors building on fragmented tooling get a harder comparison to make.
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At Google Cloud Next '26, Google announced the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform — a comprehensive platform to build, scale, govern, and optimize AI agents. Critically, all Vertex AI services and future roadmap evolutions will be delivered exclusively through this Agent Platform rather than as standalone services, making it the single hub for Google Cloud's agent development story. The platform introduces capabilities including Agent Designer (no-code, trigger-based agent builder), long-running agents, an Inbox for monitoring agent activity, Projects (agent memory scoped to team data), Skills (shortcuts for repetitive tasks), and an Agent Gallery with third-party integrations from Adobe, Atlassian, ServiceNow, and others.
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