Google unveils AX, an open-source agentic orchestrator

Google introduced AX, an open-source "Agentic Orchestrator," on September 18, 2026, during its I/O developer conference. The platform lets developers compose, coordinate and supervise autonomous AI agents across cloud, edge and on-device environments via a single declarative API, with a reference implementation for Gemini 1.5 Pro.

• AX core runtime is released under the Apache 2.0 license with a Gemini 1.5 Pro reference stack
• More than 150,000 developers registered on the GitHub page within 48 hours
• A research assistant completes a 15-step literature review in 42 seconds, 27% faster than LangChain
• A four-node AX cluster handles 1.2 billion token-level operations per hour at sub-10 ms latency