Multi-Agent AI, Open Protocols & Startup Acceleration with Saurabh Tiwary | AI Basics
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jason dives deep into the future of multi-agent systems with Saurabh Tiwary, VP & GM of Cloud AI at Google. They explore how teams of AI agents—not just single models—can collaborate to solve complex problems, helping startups scale faster with fewer resources.
Saurabh introduces Google Cloud’s open frameworks:
- Agent Development Kit (ADK) for building flexible, debuggable agents
- Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol, now part of the Linux Foundation
- The emerging Multi-Agent Collaboration Protocol, enabling AI systems to work across platforms and organizations
They also discuss:
- Why AI agents are evolving from task-doers to decision-makers
- How multimodal inputs (text, image, video, voice) will supercharge agent capabilities
- Why openness and interoperability will define the next era of AI infrastructure
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason introduces Saurabh Tiwary, VP & GM of Cloud AI at Google, and sets the stage for a deep dive on autonomous agents.
(1:09) What is an AI Agent Today?
(2:54) When Will Agents Actually Work?l
(6:30) Inside Google’s ADK (Agent Development Kit)
(8:35l) Agent-to-Agent Protocol & Open AI Standards
(11:35 ) Why Human-in-the-Loop Still Matters
(13:41) What’s Next: Multimodal Agents & Real Startup Use Cases
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Google Cloud Report: “The Future of AI: Perspectives for Startups”
Free download → https://goo.gle/futureofai
Google Cloud Homepage
Google Cloud: Agent Development Kit (ADK)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/agent-development-kit-easy-to-build-multi-agent-applications/
https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/agent-development-kit/quickstart
Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol by Google
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/
Linux Foundation: A2A Protocol Overview
Google Research: AI Agents & Multi-Agent Systems
https://research.google/blog/accelerating-scientific-breakthroughs-with-an-ai-co-scientist/
https://cloud.google.com/transform/ai-agents-evolving-with-google-agentspace
Google’s Agentspace https://cloud.google.com/products/agentspace?hl=en
Google’s Vertex AI Agent Builder
https://cloud.google.com/products/agent-builder?hl=en
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of AI Basics. |
| 0:09.2 | Doing this in partnership with our friends over at Google Cloud. |
| 0:12.7 | Go check out their report. |
| 0:14.6 | The Future of AI Perspective for Startups. |
| 0:17.7 | It features insights from 23 leading voices in AI, and it's available to you for free |
| 0:23.1 | at g-o-o.glo.g.le slash future of AI. And today, we're excited to welcome Sorab Torwari. He is the VP |
| 0:32.6 | and general manager of Cloud AI at Google. Surab leads Cloud AI products like Vertex, Kaggle, and the agent development stack, |
| 0:40.9 | and his team works closely with DeepMind to bring AI research into production. |
| 0:46.1 | All right, Sirab, it is a crazy time for AI. |
| 0:49.6 | Thanks for taking a break. |
| 0:51.3 | No, thanks for having me. |
| 0:53.2 | And really nice to be here on the podcast. |
| 0:56.0 | My Lord, have you ever seen a pace like this in our industry? |
| 0:59.1 | I mean, it is crazy. |
| 1:00.2 | It has been crazy for quite some time now. |
| 1:02.8 | I guess you probably feel it as well that the pace of things happening is accelerating, |
| 1:08.3 | if you can imagine that. |
| 1:09.5 | Which is really the crazy part of it. |
| 1:12.6 | We see all this amazing innovation over the last two or three years as, you know, AI becomes |
| 1:17.5 | available to a broader group of individuals, whether it's consumers, business executives, |
| 1:23.6 | consultants, and of course, developers, and people building products. And I think today, really good idea to talk about agents. |
| 1:31.3 | Everybody's been obsessed for a couple of years now with chatting and prompting. |
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