Defining the agentic AI era
Google's Gemini 3.5 marks the agentic AI era entering full swing
“the agent era feels like it's really in full swing with Gemini”
At Google I/O Day 2, Google's AI leadership including DeepMind CTO Koray and Gemini co-lead Jeff discussed how Gemini 3.5 Flash was purpose-built to advance coding and agentic workflows. The team highlighted that intensive internal dogfooding of the model surfaced real bottlenecks and drove improvements in long-horizon task solving. Google is framing its 'full stack AI' approach as essential infrastructure for enabling the agentic era across consumers and businesses.