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Cognizant and Google Cloud Expand Partnership to Drive Agentic AI
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News18•20-10-2026, 13:45
Cognizant and Google Cloud Expand Partnership to Drive Agentic AI
- •Cognizant and Google Cloud announced an expanded partnership to accelerate agentic AI adoption with a new Gemini Frontier Capability Group.
- •The initiative is supported by more than 18,000 dedicated Cognizant associates and builds on the Gemini practice launched earlier.
- •The partnership aims to help enterprises safely deploy resilient, production-grade AI agents for measurable business value.
- •Engineering capabilities will initially focus on legacy modernization, developer experience, autonomous business process agentification, and cyber defense.
- •Cognizant is also deploying Gemini internally to scale up to 200,000 associates while increasing professional certifications on the platform.
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Cognizant and Google Cloud expanded their partnership to accelerate the adoption of agentic AI by establishing the 'Gemini Frontier Capability Group' and deploying standardized, security-first agentic architecture built on the Model Context Protocol.
The new Gemini Frontier Capability Group is supported by more than 18,000 dedicated Cognizant associates as part of a substantial joint investment.
The group will initially concentrate its engineering capabilities across legacy modernisation, developer experience, autonomous business process agentification, and frontier cyber defence.
