Cognizant and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership to accelerate enterprise adoption of agentic AI, establishing a dedicated Gemini Frontier Capability Group backed by more than 18,000 Cognizant associates.
The initiative aims to help businesses move AI projects from pilot stages to production by combining Google Cloud’s AI platform with Cognizant’s engineering and industry expertise. The group will focus on developing secure, production-ready AI agents designed to deliver measurable business outcomes.
The announcement builds on Cognizant’s Gemini practice launched in April 2026 and comes amid growing enterprise demand for AI systems that can automate complex workflows while meeting security and governance requirements.
Ravi Kumar S, CEO, Cognizant, said the new group would enable the company’s frontier engineering teams to focus on deploying advanced AI solutions for clients. He added that more than 55,000 Cognizant associates had completed the company’s Build with Gemini workshop, which provided hands-on experience in developing AI agents and applications.
Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud, said Cognizant’s dedicated engineering capabilities and workforce training would help joint customers accelerate the deployment of autonomous agents across their organisations.
Focus on modernisation, automation and cybersecurity
The Gemini Frontier Capability Group will initially concentrate on four areas: legacy system modernisation, developer experience, autonomous business process automation and advanced cyber defence.
The group plans to use standardised, security-focused agentic architectures based on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Google Cloud’s Model Armor. These frameworks are intended to support the development and deployment of enterprise AI solutions.
Planned applications include Cognizant’s Catalog Support Agent for retail, a healthcare agentic marketplace orchestrated by Neuro® SAN, and multi-agent Order-to-Cash workflows for manufacturing.
Workforce training and productivity gains
Workforce development is another key component of the expanded partnership. More than 55,000 Cognizant associates have completed the Build with Gemini workshop, which the companies described as the largest single Gemini partner workshop conducted to date.
Cognizant also cited an engagement with a leading retailer in which integrating Gemini models into the software development lifecycle helped increase developer productivity by 40%, reduce time-to-market by 30%, and lower costs by 35%.
The company is also deploying Gemini internally, with plans to make it available to 100,000 associates in 2026 and scale adoption to 200,000, according to the announcement.
Through the expanded partnership, Cognizant and Google Cloud aim to combine AI engineering, workforce skills, and enterprise deployment frameworks to accelerate the transition from experimental AI projects to production-scale agentic applications.