GCP – Google Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms

Scaling generative AI demands a unified, governed platform that delivers complex agentic capability, end-to-end operational control, and the flexibility of model choice across your enterprise – regardless of where your data resides.

We are proud to announce that Google has been recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms for our Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. 

Google was positioned highest in Ability to Execute of all vendors evaluated and we believe this result validates our platform’s commitment to three core customer outcomes: building highly differentiated AI, driving agentic transformation, and scaling with predictable cost.

Build differentiated models with unrivaled choice

Your AI journey starts with access to the best models and a platform to build differentiated assets. Vertex AI is that platform that provides the control and choice necessary for your business.

Vertex AI is fueled by continuous, market-leading innovation from Google DeepMind, ensuring you always have instant access to the most advanced intelligence. This continuous stream of best-in-class models is made accessible through the Vertex AI Model Garden, which offers over 200 models from Google, open-source communities, and third-party partners. We recently delivered Gemini 3, our most intelligent model yet, available in Vertex AI. This extensive choice guarantees you always have the optimal model for any specific use case, budget, and performance need. 

Once you have selected a model, you need the tools to make it yours. Vertex AI Training provides the full spectrum of customization to adapt the model to your company’s proprietary data and business processes.

Driving agentic transformation for your business

The next wave of business transformation is being powered by sophisticated AI agents. 

Vertex AI Agent Builder provides a dedicated suite of open frameworks, tools and services for developers and enterprises to build, scale, and govern custom, multi-agent systems into production. The platform provides the core services essential for moving agents to production: agent orchestration, end-to-end operations, observability, and secure grounding in your enterprise data. Specifically, Agent Engine enables developers to deploy, manage, and scale AI agents in production with a suite of fully managed services. These capabilities ensure agents can act reliably and efficiently across complex, existing business systems. With platforms like Gemini Enterprise, you can bring these production-ready agents directly to the entire knowledge workforce to streamline workflows and improve individual productivity.

To ensure agent development velocity, we offer the open-source Agent Development Kit (ADK), a flexible framework that has been downloaded over 8 million times to accelerate agent creation. We also continue to drive open standards for agent collaboration. We created and donated the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation, enabling secure communication across any vendor’s agent ecosystem. We went a step further and delivered the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to power secure, trusted commerce between agents.

We are also constantly adding improvements to mitigate operational risk. We provide native agent identities that integrate with your existing IAM policies, simplifying compliance audits and enforcing least-privilege access for every agent deployed. Features like Model Armor proactively inspect agent traffic to protect against common threats, including prompt injection and data exfiltration, ensuring operational stability.

Deploy AI at production scale

A successful AI strategy requires reliable performance and predictable costs. Vertex AI is built on the same global infrastructure that runs Google Search and YouTube, giving your AI initiatives a foundation of resilience and scale.

We offer flexible deployment options to meet your specific needs. For critical workloads, Provisioned Throughput offers a fixed-cost subscription that reserves capacity. This ensures consistent, predictable performance and eliminates resource contention.

Vertex AI uses pre-built connectors that drastically reduce the engineering effort needed to ground models in data from your on-premises data warehouses, multi-cloud environments, and SaaS applications, complementing secure connectivity to your Google Cloud data, including BigQuery. To ensure your data processing occurs within your defined sovereignty boundary, we support Data Residency Zones (DRZ) and offer Vertex AI on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) for on-premises and edge deployments.

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We believe Google Cloud’s recognition as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant underscores the strategic advantage Vertex AI offers in powering the agent economy today. We are committed to helping you build differentiated AI, operate it securely, and scale it reliably.

Download a complimentary copy of the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms report to learn more about why Google was recognized as a Leader.

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