Google opens the infrastructure behind Gemini agents as a cloud service, Agent Compute Engine
Google announced that it will open a preview of Agent Compute Engine to Google Cloud users later this year, providing each AI agent with a hardware-isolated microVM that balances container startup speed with sandbox security. The service was originally internal infrastructure for Gemini, Antigravity, and Google's model training pipelines; when an agent is idle, it checkpoints the microVM to free up resources. Google is also offering an open-source runtime, Agent Substrate, which can run on any Kubernetes cluster; the company says that in a benchmark of 200,000 agents it achieved 500 activations per second, with suspend and resume taking under half a second.
Google announced that it will open a preview of Agent Compute Engine to Google Cloud users later this year, providing each AI agent with a hardware-isolated microVM that balances container startup speed with sandbox security. The service was originally internal infrastructure for Gemini, Antigravity, and Google's model training pipelines; when an agent is idle, it checkpoints the microVM to free up resources. Google is also offering an open-source runtime, Agent Substrate, which can run on any K
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