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Google unveils Agent Compute Engine to run each Gemini agent in hardware‑isolated microVMs
Google announced Agent Compute Engine, a service that runs each AI agent inside its own hardware‑isolated microVM secured by Google's Titanium chip and says it already powers Gemini. The service — which underpins the open‑sourced Agent Substrate Kubernetes runtime — pauses idle VMs to free resources, uses shared memory to cut per‑agent costs, and (Google says) can fit up to ten times as many agents per server; it will open for preview in coming months and adds token tracking, model routing, and third‑party identity provider support extending to Cloud Run, GKE and managed endpoints.
KEY POINTS
- Google announced Agent Compute Engine, a service that runs each AI agent inside its own hardware‑isolated microVM secured by Google's Titanium chip and says it already powers Gemini.
- The service — which underpins the open‑sourced Agent Substrate Kubernetes runtime — pauses idle VMs to free resources, uses shared memory to cut per‑agent costs, and (Google says) can fit up to ten times as many agents per server; it will open for preview in coming months and adds token tracking, model routing, and third‑party identity provider support extending to Cloud Run, GKE and managed endpoints.
- This changes how large agent fleets are deployed by improving security with hardware isolation, lowering VM costs via shared memory and suspend/resume, and adding operational controls for scaling and oversight.
WHY IT MATTERS
This changes how large agent fleets are deployed by improving security with hardware isolation, lowering VM costs via shared memory and suspend/resume, and adding operational controls for scaling and oversight.