Google Cloud's Kurian Says Gemini agent Runs Google and Anthropic Models
Summary
Google Cloud introduces the Gemini agent, a single agent that answers questions, handles knowledge work and writes code, Thomas Kurian said at Gemini at Work 2026. It runs models from Google and Anthropic. Merck, Bradesco and Ryanair are customers; Santee Cooper expects up to 75% faster financial modeling.
Key Points
- Commerzbank says Gemini Enterprise cuts manual document reviews from 20 hours to one.
- Google Cloud says its TPU 8i system delivers 80% better price-performance than the prior generation.
- Google Cloud says real-time spend caps pause a project's agents once token usage hits the limit.