Essential AI and Google Cloud Form New Partnership to Accelerate Development of Full-Stack Generative AI Products


At the "Gemini at Work 2026" conference, Google Cloud announced the launch of a new Gemini Agent for global enterprise customers. Positioned as a "general work agent," it aims to revolutionize daily corporate collaboration and productivity through a unified interface. This agent breaks through the limitations of traditional AI, which can only handle simple questions and answers. Users need only provide a high-level work objective, and the agent will autonomously handle subsequent tasks, improving enterprise efficiency.
At a Google Cloud event on Thursday, Google announced that Gemini AI has entered the era of intelligent agents, launching a unified intelligent agent system that shifts from answering questions to performing tasks on behalf of users. Gemini has over 1 billion monthly active users, and nearly 90% of Fortune 100 companies have adopted Gemini Enterprise. As enterprises place greater emphasis on security, scalability, and performance, the service is initially launched for enterprise customers before expanding to the consumer market. The new system features goal-oriented capabilities.
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Google partners with Reliance Jio to offer free Gemini AI services to over 500 million users, initially targeting young people aged 18-25, each receiving high-end AI benefits worth about 35,000 rupees. The collaboration centers around Gemini 2.5 Pro, creating an integrated 'AI + Cloud' experience, accelerating the popularization of AI technology from an elite tool to a mass infrastructure.
Francis deSouza, Google Cloud's Chief Operating Officer, stated in a podcast that the company is competing with giants like AWS and Oracle by focusing on serving startups. He took office in January this year and emphasized that Google Cloud provides infrastructure support for AI startups to strengthen its market position.