Google launches Agent Compute Engine
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Google announced Agent Compute Engine, which runs each AI agent in its own hardware-isolated microVM secured by Google's Titanium chip. It already powers Gemini and will open for preview in the coming months; idle agents pause automatically to free capacity, and shared memory between VMs lowers per-agent cost. Google says its open-sourced Agent Substrate Kubernetes runtime fits ten times as many agents on a single server, and a 200,000-agent test showed suspend and resume under 500 milliseconds. Google is also adding token tracking, model routing and third-party identity provider support, extending those controls to Cloud Run, GKE and managed endpoints.
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- The DecoderGoogle's Agent Compute Engine gives every Gemini agent its own hardware-isolated microVM
Google announced Agent Compute Engine, a service that runs each AI agent in its own isolated microVM secured by Google's Titanium chip. It already powers Gemini and will open for preview in the coming months; idle agents pause automatically to free capacity, and shared memory between VMs lowers per-agent cost. Google says the open-sourced Agent Substrate Kubernetes runtime fits ten times as many agents on a single server, and a 200,000-agent test showed suspend and resume under 500 milliseconds. Google is also adding token tracking, model routing and third-party identity provider support, extending those controls to Cloud Run, GKE and managed endpoints.
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