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In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I break down how Gemini agent combines Google Cloud's AI stack, cross-cloud capabilities, and governance to address pressing enterprise challenges.
Highlights
00:03 — I think late last week, Google Cloud rocked the whole agentic AI category here with a very interesting development of what it's calling Gemini agent. It spans both the personal AI that we've heard a lot about lately from OpenAI and Grok and Meta, but also, I think much more importantly, the big focus on it is for enterprise AI.
01:39 — This is heavily an enterprise AI product, although it can do those other things. The key is that it sits across Google Cloud's world-class AI stack. That gives it, then, more capability, more flexibility, and better economics for enterprise customers. And in his keynote address, Kurian focused on the affordability that comes now with Gemini agent, the simplicity engineered into it.
02:24 — He said, "The prompt window is the new user interface." Kurian also focused, I think rightly so, on how Gemini Agent, with some of the lakehouse capabilities within Google Cloud, can now work across and tap into data from all the different major clouds, different data stores, applications, tools, and other solutions.
03:00 — A big part of its promise is the ability to work end-to-end across the entire enterprise. They've got to be able to go in and work across different vendors, different applications, and so forth like that. Part of this, then, you can say goodbye to egress fees, which have been a pain in the neck.
04:22 — Customers are saying, "Hey, I'm being pushed inside my organization to do a number of things faster and differently than I've ever done them before, and I need to have tech partners, tech vendors who speak to me in my language about my priorities, my outcomes, and the things that I need to achieve right away."
04:40 —So I think this was just a great launch here by Google Cloud, not only for what the product is able to do, but how that aligns with what customer priorities are.
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