Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership to speed enterprise adoption of agentic AI, including a new Gemini Frontier Capability Group backed by more than 18,000 Cognizant associates. The group aims to take AI agents from pilot to production, focusing on legacy modernization, developer experience, agent-based business process automation and cyber defense, built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Google Cloud's Model Armor. Cognizant helped one leading retailer achieve a 40% gain in developer productivity, a 30% shorter time-to-market and 35% cost savings by integrating Gemini into its software development lifecycle. More than 55,000 associates completed the Build with Gemini workshop, the largest Gemini partner workshop to date, and Cognizant plans to deploy Gemini to 100,000 associates this year, scaling up to 200,000.
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