Google Cloud Launches Google Agentspace

Nitin Konde, Varun Bhardwaj

Dec 17, 2024 — 3 min read

Google Cloud Launches Google Agentspace

On 16 December, Google Cloud announced Google Agentspace, which gives workers access to company knowledge using AI agents that combine enterprise data, Google-quality search, and Gemini's sophisticated reasoning, independent of where the data is kept. With just one instruction, Google Agentspace helps workers do complicated activities that call for preparation, research, content creation, and action.

For businesses, brilliance isn't only about individual genius; it's about the collective intelligence within an organisation, according to Mark Micallef, Managing Director, Southeast Asia, Google Cloud. However, this genius is frequently concealed in silos, making it unavailable to those who need it most at the most critical times. According to research from Google, enterprise workers typically use four to six tools only to ask a question and receive a response. The company is giving business employees a group of AI agents who serve as their helpful sidekicks through Google Agentspace. With just a single request, these AI agents assist staff members with information searches, insights, content creation, and actions across corporate systems, freeing them up to concentrate on their most important tasks and achieve unprecedented levels of productivity.

Features of Google Agentspace

Google created NotebookLM to assist people with understanding complex data, and Google Cloud is now enabling businesses to use this feature. Employees may use NotebookLM Plus to upload data for synthesis, get insights, and experience new data engagement features like audio overviews, which resemble podcasts, among other things. Millions of users enjoy the same experience, which has been improved with work-related security and privacy features. Additionally, Google is beginning to release Gemini 2.0 Flash's experimental version in NotebookLM.

Multimodal Search Agent

Google Agentspace provides employees with a unified, company-branded multimodal search agent that serves as a central source of enterprise information for the entire organisation. Extending Google's search capabilities, Agentspace may offer conversational support, respond to intricate queries, offer proactive recommendations, and take action based on specific data about a business. It can do this with both organised data, like tables, and unstructured data, like emails and documents. Additionally, Agentspace has translation built in so that staff members can comprehend information that comes from a different language. Employees can quickly access and query pertinent data sources and improve decision-making using pre-built connectors for the most widely used third-party apps, including Confluence, Google Drive, Jira, Microsoft SharePoint, ServiceNow, and more.

Generative AI Contextually

Custom AI agents that use generative AI contexts are launched through Google Agentspace. Businesses may now give their staff members in marketing, finance, law, engineering, and other departments the tools they need to perform better research, create content more rapidly, and automate tedious processes like multi-step workflows. Businesses can use Agentspace to scale AI by putting these agents in an easy-to-use interface so staff members can find and access all of the knowledgeable agents in one location. Employees will soon be able to create and fine-tune their own expert agents on Agentspace using a low-code visual tool.

Providing Breather to Business Operators

Business analysts can easily identify market trends and produce engaging, data-driven presentations powered by AI-generated insights with Google Agentspace. HR departments can transform the employee experience by streamlining the onboarding process. By proactively finding and fixing defects, software developers may increase the efficiency of their builds and iterations while speeding up deployment processes. To get better results, marketers can easily fine-tune campaigns, optimise content recommendations, and uncover deeper performance analysis.

Lastly, the most important thing is always security. Because Agentspace is based on Google Cloud's secure-by-design architecture, businesses can confidently implement AI agents throughout their companies. Furthermore, Google Cloud offers granular IT controls, such as integration between Identity and Access Management, role-based access control, and virtual private cloud service restrictions. This guarantees that company data is always safe and in compliance.