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Google has rebranded its Vertex AI developer platform as the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, introducing tools for building, deploying, governing, and monitoring large-scale AI agent deployments. The platform includes Agent Studio for low-code agent creation, Agent Gateway for security enforcement, and cryptographic identity management for each agent.

Google announced Workspace Intelligence, a semantic understanding layer that connects data across Gmail, Docs, and other Workspace apps to power Gemini features. The company also released TPU 8t chips for training (2.8x better price/performance) and TPU 8i chips for inference (80% better performance-per-dollar).

Meta has signed a multi-billion dollar deal to rent Google's TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) chips for training its AI models, marking a significant shift away from Nvidia's dominance in AI infrastructure. The arrangement provides Meta with alternative compute capacity while signaling growing competition in the specialized AI chip market.