Google Just Killed Vertex AI. Here's What the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Vertex AI has been Google Cloud's AI development platform since 2021. On April 22, 2026, at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google retired it — not with a deprecation notice, but with a full rebrand and architectural overhaul. Going forward, all Vertex AI services and roadmap evolutions will be delivered exclusively through Agent Platform. If you're building on Google Cloud's AI stack, the ground just shifted. The Problem It's Solving Vertex AI was built for a different era. In the early days of