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Google launches Agent Compute Engine, giving each Gemini agent its own hardware-isolated micro VM

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Google has launched Agent Compute Engine, a service that gives each Gemini agent its own hardware-isolated micro virtual machine protected by Titanium chips. The VMs automatically pause when idle to release resources and use shared memory to reduce costs. Google states that VMs are the primary cost factor for Agentic systems, and the service currently supports Gemini, with broader preview access planned over the coming months.

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Google's Agent Compute Engine provides hardware-isolated microVM for each Gemini agent
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    Google Agent Compute Engine gives each Gemini agent its own

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    Google's Agent Compute Engine provides hardware-isolated microVM for each Gemini agent

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    Google announced Agent Compute Engine, a service giving each AI agent its own isolated micro virtual machine secured by Google's Titanium chip. This service, which already powers Gemini, will open for preview in the coming months. The system features automatic VM pausing when idle, shared memory to reduce running costs, and Google claims it can fit ten times as many agents on a single server, with suspend and resume taking less than 500 milliseconds in a 200,000 agent test. Oversight features include token tracking, model routing, and support for third-party identity providers like Ping Identity and SailPoint.

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