Google's Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, a new open standard for AI agent interoperability, is gaining attention now that companies have invested in a variety of AI agents. The A2A protocol provides a ...

Version 0.3 of the open-source A2A protocol introduces gRPC support, signed security cards, and enhanced integration with Google’s Agent Development Kit to simplify agent orchestration for enterprises ...

In his keynote presentation, Mike Smith, a Google staff software engineer, told the conference that the A2A protocol has evolved to make it easier to add custom extensions to the core specification.

Summary: Google rebranded and consolidated its AI platform at Cloud Next 2026, renaming Vertex AI to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and absorbing Agentspace into a unified Gemini Enterprise ...