Google launches AX open agentic orchestrator for scalable AI tasks
Google introduced AX, an open‑source orchestrator designed to run agentic workloads at massive scale. Developers describe tasks in a simple YAML file, and AX creates isolated sandboxes with CPU and memory limits, sets up workspaces, applies network policies, and configures model access. The system can suspend idle agents and resume them in under a second, turning waiting time into usable compute.
Key points
- AX lets developers declare tasks in YAML and run them in isolated sandboxes.
- The platform can scale to billions of concurrent agent sessions per cluster.
- AX supports sub‑second suspend/resume and generative workspace creation via plain language.
AX runs on top of Agent Substrate, a runtime built for dense multiplexing of lightweight actors. According to the announcement, the platform can handle billions of concurrent agent sessions per cluster, offering sub‑second resumption and generative workspace creation from plain‑language descriptions. Google positions AX as a tool for both application developers and AI researchers who need reproducible, cost‑effective environments for interactive coding agents, reinforcement‑learning loops, or long‑running services.
Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator
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