There is a widening gap between the sophistication of manufacturing data models and the reality of the production line.
Google's Agentic Data Cloud rewires BigQuery, its data catalog and pipeline tooling around autonomous AI agents — not the human-scale queries enterprise data stacks were built for.
Google launches AI agent suite at Cloud Next 2026 with Workspace Studio, A2A protocol at 150 orgs, and Project Mariner. The pitch: only Google owns the full stack.