Google Cloud and Nokia broadened their partnership with the release of new AI agents designed for autonomous network operations.

Deployed in the vendor's network software platform, Nokia Assurance Center, the agents were built by Nokia using Google Cloud's Agent Development Kit (ADK) on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Two of the six-strong set are now available: the router agent, which orchestrates communication, interprets user intent, and enforces operational guardrails; and the event triage agent, which analyzes alarms against historical patterns to find root causes.

More agents will be released when the platform officially launches as a software as a service (SaaS) model on the Google Cloud Marketplace in September 2026. These will include the key performance indicator (KPI) selector agent, which provides expert interpretation of complex performance metrics. The anomaly reasoner agent, meanwhile, distinguishes genuine network deviations from false alarms. Once an issue is validated, a separate action reasoner agent consults automation catalogs to recommend precise remediation steps, while the dashboard agent streamlines reporting by enabling teams to promptly generate visual analytics and tracking screens using natural language prompts.

According to Google, the agents cut network issue-solving times between 50% to 80%. The hyperscaler also promised enhanced accuracy, accessible, simple-language-based analytics, and cost efficiency.

Nokia, meanwhile, said the setup relies on "glass box autonomy," where agents represent an advisory layer, presenting recommendations to humans-in-the-loop. Engineers maintain final approval over critical control points before any remediation actions are automatically executed and logged; in low-risk, policy-approved situations, the same architecture can also enable fully closed-loop automation.

Alphabet's agentic telco footprint

The release follows Nokia's recent expansion of its Network-as-Code (NaC) telecom API ecosystem, with Google's agentic AI embedded into NaC through no-code integration. Unveiled at Mobile World Congress, the partnership was framed as helping operators maximize 5G investments and shift telecom away from network APIs toward smarter, more programmable networks.

One agent highlighted by Nokia allows for a dedicated network slice to assist multimodal AI inference from mobile device feeds, guaranteeing bandwidth availability from the very start of data transmission.

“We’re integrating Nokia’s network-as-code platform with our AI stack, so engineers can use natural language to tell the network what to do, prioritizing network resources for critical services like emergency response or health care, as an example,” Angelo Libertucci, global head of industry for telecom at Google Cloud, told this title in a recent interview.

With the Nokia Assurance Center expansion, Google Cloud continues to increase its market position in the telecom sector. Arun Menon, principal analyst and GNI director and MTN Consulting, said the gap is closing between Google and Microsoft in terms of telecom-related hyperscaler revenues.

"Based on our estimates, Alphabet’s hyperscale telecom revenues reached about $3 billion in 2025, compared with roughly $3.85 billion for Microsoft and $4.2 billion for Amazon," Menon said. "The gap between Microsoft and Alphabet has narrowed significantly over the last two years, largely because Alphabet/Google is leaning heavily into AI-driven telco use cases and data platforms, which align closely with operators’ current priorities around automation and customer analytics."

Instead of making customers wait for all agents to be finalized, Nokia will deliver the remaining, more complex agents through rolling software updates. These continuous releases will expand capabilities across Nokia's broader network portfolio—including Unified Inventory, Data Suite, and Orchestration applications—beginning in late 2026 and continuing throughout 2027.