Merck, Home Depot tap Gemini Enterprise for AI agent development

At Google Cloud Next, Google showcased the expansion of its Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, highlighted by a new $1 billion deal with Merck to integrate AI into drug discovery and business workflows. While major clients like Citi and Home Depot are also adopting Google’s integrated AI stack, analysts note that intense competition from rivals like Microsoft and AWS is creating a market of increasingly similar, minimally differentiated platforms.