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title: "Episode 95: Google Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Lean Agentic AI— Building Lean Agentic AI That Cuts Cost, Energy & Carbon"
type: episode
date: 2026-07-28
source: podcast
original_url: "https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/naveen-balani/episodes/Episode-95-Google-Gemini-Enterprise-Agent-Platform-and-Lean-Agentic-AI-Building-Lean-Agentic-AI-That-Cuts-Cost--Energy--Carbon-e3mkp1l"
summary: Discover Google's latest Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform—and learn how to build AI agents that are efficient by design. In this episode, I explore Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform , announced at Google Cloud Next, and show how it can be used to…
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duration: "00:25:20"
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<p><strong>Discover Google&#39;s latest Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform—and learn how to build AI agents that are efficient by design.</strong></p><p>In this episode, I explore Google&#39;s <strong>Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform</strong>, announced at Google Cloud Next, and show how it can be used to build <strong>Lean Agentic AI</strong> systems that reduce <strong>cost, energy consumption, and carbon emissions</strong> without compromising performance. </p><p>You&#39;ll learn:</p><ul><li>What&#39;s new in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and its Build, Scale, Govern, and Optimize capabilities</li><li>The six stages where AI agents waste tokens, compute, and money</li><li>The eight Lean Agentic AI design principles for building production-ready agentic systems</li><li>How the <strong>Software Carbon Intensity (SCI)</strong> standard helps measure AI sustainability</li><li>A real-world portfolio rebalancing agent that demonstrates how better architecture can reduce model calls, costs, energy use, and carbon emissions by up to <strong>90%</strong></li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Why these principles apply across Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, and other cloud platforms</li></ul><p>If you&#39;re building production AI agents, leading enterprise AI initiatives, or evaluating Google&#39;s latest agent platform, this episode provides practical guidance for designing intelligent systems that are efficient, measurable, and sustainable.</p><p><strong>Think big. Design and deploy lean. Build agents that earn their watts.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Connect/Follow - https://www.linkedin.com/in/naveenbalani/</strong></p>