Artificial Intelligence
Google unveils isolated runtime for Gemini agents
Google announced Agent Compute Engine, a service for AI agents that it said already powered Gemini, with preview due in coming months and governance tools extending across its cloud services.
- Google announced Agent Compute Engine, a service that gave each AI agent an isolated virtual machine.
- Google said the service already powered Gemini and would open for preview in the coming months.
- Google said each agent ran inside a microVM secured by its Titanium chip.
- Google said Agent Substrate, an open-sourced Kubernetes runtime, could fit ten times as many agents on one server.
- Google said it was adding token tracking, model routing and support for third-party identity providers such as Ping Identity and SailPoint.
Google announced Agent Compute Engine, a service for AI agents that gave each one its own isolated virtual machine. The company said the service already powered Gemini and would enter preview in the coming months.
Google said each agent ran inside a microVM secured by its Titanium chip. It said idle virtual machines paused automatically and that shared memory between VMs reduced running costs.
The company said Agent Substrate, an open-sourced Kubernetes runtime, sat behind the system. Google said it could host ten times as many agents on one server, and in a test with 200,000 agents suspend and resume took less than 500 milliseconds.
Google also said it was adding token tracking, model routing and support for third-party identity providers including Ping Identity and SailPoint. It said those controls would extend to Cloud Run, GKE and managed endpoints.
Named in this story
Companies
- announced Agent Compute Engine and the related governance controls
- Ping Identity
- one of the third-party identity providers Google said it supported
- SailPoint
- one of the third-party identity providers Google said it supported
Products and systems
- Agent Compute Engine
- the service that gave each agent an isolated virtual machine
- Gemini
- the service said it already used Agent Compute Engine
- Titanium chip
- secured the microVMs, according to Google
- Agent Substrate
- the open-sourced Kubernetes runtime behind the system
- Kubernetes
- the runtime framework used by Agent Substrate
- Cloud Run
- one of the services the new controls would extend to
- GKE
- one of the services the new controls would extend to
How the source tells it
The register was promotional and vendor-led, with Google's own claims about efficiency, scale and controls carried through without sceptical framing.
- vendor boosterism Google’s own wording on the service, its security and its governance features was repeated as the central account of the announcement.
- scale hype The piece leaned on large capacity claims and a 200,000-agent test to suggest unusually strong performance.