US \u2013 Google Cloud has announced it is investing $750m to offer new resources and incentives to partners \u2013 including consulting firms and software companies \u2013 to accelerate joint customers\u2019 use of agentic AI.<\/p>\n
The investment aims to support agentic AI development, adoption and education within Google Cloud\u2019s global partner ecosystem.<\/p>\n
There are around\u00a0120,000 partners, including major consultancies and so-called \u2018systems integrators\u2019 responsible for implementing agentic AI systems for their clients.<\/p>\n
Google Cloud\u2019s fund will support efforts including agentic AI prototyping, agent building and upskilling. New resources and tools will include AI value assessments, Gemini proofs-of-concept, agentic AI deployment and usage incentives.<\/p>\n
As part of the move, partners including Accenture, Bain & Company, BCG, Deloitte and McKinsey, will also receive \u2018early access\u2019 to Gemini models. According to Google Cloud, their feedback will be used to refine the systems.<\/p>\n
“Google Cloud\u2019s partners are already leaders in agentic AI development and deployment, and have become important channels for distributing AI technologies. With this expanded funding, we will be able to dedicate new resources and technology to support our partners as they accelerate our mutual customers\u2019 agentic AI journeys,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, president, Global Partner Ecosystem at Google Cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US \u2013 Google Cloud has announced it is investing $750m to offer new resources and incentives to partners…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[179,7493,1151,597,9437,13108,2369,13107,13109,8829,572,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-18313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agentic-ai","8":"tag-agentic-ai","9":"tag-agentic-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-industry-insight","14":"tag-legal","15":"tag-market-research-news","16":"tag-new-business","17":"tag-online","18":"tag-people","19":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}