An Interaction Is All You Need — Ivan Leo, Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind launches Interactions API and Managed Agents offering for agentic applications
“Many people have reduced this to simply a language model running in a loop. And in most cases this is true.”
Google DeepMind's Ivan Leo announced a new Interactions API and Managed Agents offering at AI Engineer, framing them as the next infrastructure layer for agentic AI development. The talk traced the evolution from completions to function calling to full agents, arguing that increasingly powerful models now operate autonomously in tool-use loops with minimal framework overhead. The Managed Agents product signals DeepMind's move to compete directly in the agentic infrastructure space alongside other major labs.