Google puts AI agents at heart of its enterprise money-making push

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai is deepening a push into enterprise software, signaling to investors at Google’s annual cloud conference that AI agents – human-like digital assistants – are a lynchpin of its strategy to monetize artificial intelligence.

At the three-day conference in Las Vegas that starts ​Wednesday, Pichai and key Google executives will seek to position the company’s AI tools as production-ready infrastructure for enterprise customers who are emerging as the industry’s most reliable revenue stream.