Honeywell and Google Cloud to accelerate AI agents for industrial sector

Honeywell (HON) and Google (GOOG) Cloud announced a collaboration connecting AI agents with assets, people and processes to accelerate safer, autonomous operations for the industrial sector. The first solutions built with Google Cloud will be available to Honeywell customers in 2025. This partnership will bring together the multimodality and natural language capabilities of Gemini on Vertex AI – Google Cloud’s AI platform – and the data set on Honeywell Forge, an Internet of Things platform for industrials. The first solutions built with Google Cloud AI will be available to Honeywell’s customers in 2025. This partnership will provide AI agents that augment the existing operations and workforce to help drive AI adoption and enable companies across the sector to benefit from expanding automation. Honeywell and Google Cloud will co-innovate solutions around: purpose-built, industrial AI agents built on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Search and tailored to engineers’ specific needs; additional agents will utilize Google’s large language models and Gemini’s multimodality capabilities to process various data types such as images, videos, text and sensor readings; enhanced cybersecurity to help enhance threat detection and protect global infrastructure for industrial customers; Honeywell will explore using Google’s Gemini Nano model to enhance Honeywell edge AI devices’ intelligence multiple use cases across verticals without the need to connect to the internet and cloud. This is the beginning of a new wave of more intelligent devices and solutions, which will be the subject of future Honeywell announcements.