Tag: Google

Google Cloud enables end-to-end confidential applications, protecting sensitive data 'in-use' with hardware isolation. The solution combines Confidential Space (TEE/attestation), Oak Functions (private sandbox), and Oak Session (attested end-to-end encryption for scale). This framework anchors user trust in open-source components, proving confidentiality for sensitive workloads like proprietary GenAI models, even when running behind untrusted load balancers.

Metrax is a high-performance JAX-based metrics library developed by Google. It standardizes model evaluation by offering robust, efficient metrics for classification, NLP, and vision, eliminating manual re-implementation after migrating from TensorFlow. Key strengths include parallel computation of "at K" metrics (e.g., PrecisionAtK) for multiple K values and strong integration with the JAX AI Stack, leveraging JAX's performance features. It is open-source on GitHub.

The blog post argues the request-response model fails for advanced multi-agent AI. It advocates for a real-time bidirectional streaming architecture, implemented by the Agent Development Kit (ADK). This streaming model enables true concurrency, natural interruptibility, and unified multimodal processing. ADK's core features are real-time I/O management, stateful sessions for agent handoffs, and streaming-native tools.

Agent Garden is now available to all users to simplify AI agent creation and deployment using the Agent Development Kit (ADK). It provides curated agent samples, one-click deployment via Agent Starter Pack, and customization through Firebase Studio. It helps developers with complex business challenges and multi-agent workflows, with Renault Group cited as an early success story.

The new **User Simulation** feature in the Agent Development Kit (ADK) replaces rigid, brittle manual test scripts with dynamic, LLM-powered conversation generation. Developers define a high-level `conversation_plan`, and the simulator handles the multi-turn interaction to achieve the goal. This dramatically reduces test creation time, builds more resilient tests, and creates a reliable regression suite for AI agents.

The Agent Development Kit (ADK), an open-source, code-first toolkit for building powerful and sophisticated AI agents, now supports Go. ADK moves LLM orchestration and agent behavior directly into your code, giving you robust debugging, versioning, and deployment freedom. ADK for Go is idiomatic and performant, leveraging Go's strengths, and includes support for over 30+ databases and the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol for collaborative multi-agent systems. Start building today!

Google Colab has launched an official VS Code extension, bridging the gap between the popular code editor and the AI/ML platform. The extension combines VS Code's powerful development environment with Colab's seamless access to high-powered runtimes (GPUs/TPUs), allowing users to connect local notebooks to Colab. This aims to meet developers where they are and brings the best of both worlds.

Google has launched the redesigned **Android AI Sample Catalog**, a dedicated, open-source application to inspire and educate Android developers on building AI-powered apps. It showcases examples using both on-device (Gemini Nano via ML Kit GenAI API) and Cloud models (via Firebase AI Logic SDK), including image generation with Imagen, on-device summarization, and a "Chat with Nano Banana" chatbot. The code is easy to copy and paste to help developers quickly start their own projects.

Code Wiki is a new platform that tackles the bottleneck of reading existing code by providing an automated, continuously updated, structured wiki for code repositories. It features hyper-linked documentation, a Gemini-powered chat agent that understands your repo, and automated diagrams. A public preview is available for open-source projects, and a Gemini CLI extension is coming soon for secure use on private repos.

Gemini 3 Pro is now integrated into Gemini CLI, unlocking state-of-the-art reasoning, agentic coding, and advanced tool use for enhanced developer productivity. It's available now for Google AI Ultra and paid Gemini API key subscribers (upgrade CLI to 0.16.x). Features include generating 3D apps and code from visual sketches, running complex shell commands, creating documentation, and debugging live Cloud Run services.