companies

Google Cloud

Cloud computing division of Alphabet Inc.; Vertex AI is its managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling machine learning models and generative AI agents.

Google Cloud is Google's (Alphabet Inc.) enterprise cloud computing division, headquartered in Mountain View, California; Google Cloud Platform launched in 2008 and Thomas Kurian has served as Google Cloud CEO since 2018. Alphabet trades publicly on NASDAQ under GOOGL. Vertex AI is Google Cloud's unified machine learning and AI platform, launched at Google I/O on May 18, 2021, consolidating prior offerings (AutoML and the legacy AI Platform) into a single managed system for training, deploying, and governing ML models. Since launch, Vertex AI has expanded with generative AI capabilities including a model garden, Gemini model integration, and agent-building tools, and in 2025-2026 became part of Google's broader Gemini Enterprise agent platform push.

Founded

2008

Headquarters

Mountain View, United States

Sector

infrastructure