Vertex AI

Vertex AI is Google Cloud's unified AI development platform, providing tools for building, training, deploying, and managing AI models and agents. Vertex AI includes the Agent Engine (formerly Agent Builder) for creating AI agents, model hosting for Gemini and open-source models, and a comprehensive MLOps toolkit.

Vertex AI's Agent Engine enables developers to build production AI agents with features including grounding in Google Search, integration with enterprise data sources, tool use, and multi-turn conversation management. The platform supports both code-based agent development (using Google ADK) and no-code agent creation through the Google Cloud Console.

In the orchestration and platform layer, Vertex AI represents Google's enterprise-grade agent infrastructure — a managed platform that handles the complexity of deploying, scaling, and monitoring AI agents in production environments.