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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong> <\/span>Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai is deepening a push into enterprise \u200bsoftware, signaling to investors at Google’s annual cloud conference that AI agents \u2014 human-like digital assistants \u2014 are a lynchpin of its strategy \u200cto monetize artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

At the three-day conference in Las Vegas that starts Wednesday, Pichai and key Google executives will seek to position the company’s AI tools as production-ready infrastructure for enterprise customers who are emerging as the industry’s most reliable revenue stream.<\/p>\n

Other top AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic have aggressively shifted resources to business customers in recent months.<\/p>\n

Mountain \u200bView, California-based Google announced on Wednesday that it was unifying a set of AI products under the name \u201cGemini Enterprise.\u201d Most notably, this involves \u200brebranding and bulking up Vertex AI, a tool that allows cloud customers to select from a variety of AI \u2060models to use for business purposes.<\/p>\n

Google also announced a set of new governance and security features for AI agents. Agents are powerful digital assistants \u200bthat can plan, decide, and act autonomously, a fast-growing field that has sparked worries over safety, reliability and oversight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s definitely a strategic shift as the models \u200bbecome much more sophisticated,\u201d Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian told Reuters in an interview. The primary use case of Vertex AI recently shifted from \u201cold-style machine learning\u201d to a sudden explosion in users building their own custom AI agents, Kurian said.<\/p>\n

Google is seeking to outflank both its traditional cloud rivals and AI upstarts as pressure mounts to prove returns \u200bon massive generative AI spending.<\/p>\n

Google Cloud, once seen as a laggard to rivals such as Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab and Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, has gained traction with enterprise customers, powered by massive \u200bbets on AI and years of heavy investment in data centers, custom chips, and networking gear.<\/p>\n

At GE Appliances, that shift is already tangible. Marcia Brey, a senior executive and \u200cGoogle \u2060customer, told Reuters that Google’s suite of tools and the enterprise data already stored in Google Cloud allowed her logistics and distribution team to deploy AI faster compared to other products the company had tested.<\/p>\n

AGENTS OVER CODING<\/b><\/p>\n

In addition to traditional enterprise providers and other hyperscalers, a new class of competitors are quickly emerging in enterprise AI: model providers.<\/p>\n

So far, coding assistants and plug-ins that connect AI models to existing enterprise software have emerged as lucrative channels for AI \u200brevenue and payback on their heavy \u200binvestments.<\/p>\n

After early success powered by the \u2060raw strength of their models, OpenAI and Anthropic are now pushing downstream, marshalling resources into applications that utilize those models to perform specialized tasks, including agent-building tools.<\/p>\n

But while rivals are pushing hard on their coding products, Google, by contrast, \u200bkept coding largely out of the spotlight at its cloud conference. Kurian instead cast the AI battleground as \u200bone defined by agents, \u2060governance and enterprise deployment, saying that some coding announcements were being held back for its I\/O developer conference in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people are using the models to write code. They can use Gemini and also other tools like Claude,\u201d he said. \u201cBut in other cases, we have unique things. There\u2019s capability in the platform that \u2060nobody else \u200boffers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The long-term bet to build out a vast suite of in-house offerings, from models to chips, \u200brather than relying on third-party vendors has given Google an edge over other large cloud providers.<\/p>\n

This has helped Google to grow its overall cloud market share to 14% at the end \u200bof 2025, though it still trails rivals Amazon and Microsoft, according to data from Synergy Research.<\/p>\n

Find more news and analyses on Mauritius<\/span> on the Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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