Agent Platform Scorecard

Who is building the agent operating system?

Twelve dimensions across seven providers. Re-graded as announcements land, with the market's reaction shown alongside.

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Google

#1 · 7.8/10 overall

Intelligence wired into the surfaces a billion people already use.

Uniquely positioned: frontier models, the data (Search, Gmail, Calendar, Maps), the OS (Android), the cloud, and custom TPUs. The integration story is unmatched; execution and product coherence are the question.

Assistant
Gemini
Flagship model
Gemini 2.x / Ultra
Public ticker
GOOGL
Dimension breakdown
  • Gemini sits at the frontier on reasoning, long context, and multimodality.

  • Project Mariner / Astra-class agents are real and improving, if less battle-tested than rivals.

  • Gemini Live delivers strong real-time, multimodal conversation across devices.

  • Workspace actions and Android intents let it actually do things; coherence is the open question.

  • Gmail, Calendar, Photos, Maps give it the richest legitimate personal context of any provider.

  • Gemini powering Siri across Apple's installed base (WWDC 2026) is a landmark reach win on top of extensions, Workspace, and Android.

  • Vertex AI and the Gemini API are deep and enterprise-grade, if less developer-beloved than peers.

  • Owns frontier models AND the silicon (TPUs) to train and serve them. Rare vertical control.

  • Android + Assistant + Cloud + data is the most complete raw hand to build an agent OS from.

  • Gemini Nano ships on Pixel and Android with a real on-device inference path.

  • Google Cloud and Workspace are credible, governed enterprise channels at scale.

  • Closest to an integrated agent OS, with models, context, and OS in one house; product coherence lags the assets.

Trajectory

Converting the most complete set of assets (models, silicon, OS, data) into a coherent agent OS, if product execution catches up to the hand it holds.

  • Now
    Best raw hand, coherence the question

    Frontier Gemini, TPUs, Android, Workspace, and Maps under one roof.

  • H2 2026
    Agents wired into Android & Workspace

    Mariner/Astra-class agency moving from preview into the OS and productivity surfaces would lift cross-app-actions and agent capability.

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