Google Puts Every Gemini Agent in Its Own Isolated Micro-VM

Google Cloud has introduced Agent Compute Engine. It is a service that gives each Gemini-based AI agent its own virtual machine, isolated at the hardware level with Google's Titan and Titanium chips.

Inside this sandbox, the agent has no passwords and no keys at all. Access is set up so that there are simply no secrets to steal.

Google says this lets a single server run orders of magnitude more live agents than regular virtual machines can. Antigravity, Google DeepMind's autonomous coding agent system, will be the first to get the new infrastructure.

The problem being solved here is a real one. An agent that writes and runs its own code needs its own isolated computer with its own access rights, not a shared account with passwords. Agents in Claude Code, Anthropic's coding tool, face the same dilemma over repository access.

For now this is just an announcement and a preview. There is no public access yet, and everything runs inside Google's own cloud. It is worth waiting until the service opens up and gets tested on real agents, not just on the vendor's own benchmarks.