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Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Leads Enterprise AI Governance as OpenAI Starts Billing ...
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20 July 2026
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Fusion42 · 20 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Google repositioned Vertex AI as Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to address the enterprise AI governance gap: 96% of enterprises run AI agents in production but only 12% can govern them. OpenAI and Anthropic have moved to paid agent services, signalling a market inflection point around agent identity, access control, and infrastructure-layer governance.
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If you're building enterprise agent tools or governance dashboards, Google just moved the control layer below you—and made it free. Your dashboard becomes a skin on top of their Agent Identity and Gateway; your customers will buy Google's infrastructure and your application separately.
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