Alan Blount

Developer's guide to building AI Agents with Live API. It includes two quick-starts and three production ready Multimodal AI Agent apps: > Real-time Proactive Advisor Agent > Multimodal Customer Support Agent > Real-time Video Game Copilot 100% Opensource code.

🚀 LAUNCHED: The A2A protocol is now natively integrated on Vertex AI Agent Engine! Deploying A2A with Agent Engine previously involved complex processes with separate runtimes and "glue code." I'm excited to share the native integration of the A2A protocol with Vertex AI Agent Engine, making it easier to build and deploy collaborative AI agents at scale. TLDR: ✅ Deploy A2A agents with a single template ✅ Scale easily on a secure endpoint on Agent Engine ✅ Get a clean, reusable API for simple integration Code and blog in 🧵

🚢 SHIPPED: Introducing Code Execution on Vertex AI Agent Engine in preview! Creating AI that executes LLM-generated code raises risks and operational challenges. How do you run code safely? 🤔 I'm excited to share that Vertex AI Agent Engine now includes Code Execution! A fully managed, secure sandbox for your agents to perform calculations, data analysis, and more, without the operational overhead. TLDR ⚙️ Simple API, no infra to manage ↔️ Works with your LLM/agent framework ⚡ Stateful & isolated sandbox Code and blog in 🧵

The China is crushing US rhetoric totally forgets about Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking. Likely cheaper, longer context and better on reasoning. We're still early in the AI race.