Cloud Next was less about a new model and more about where agents run, who governs them, and how they get discovered inside an org. Here's what Agentspace and the ADK push mean for enterprise buyers.
AutoGen taught Microsoft conversation loops; Semantic Kernel taught it enterprise plumbing. The Agent Framework is the merger, and the migration story matters more than the feature list.
I/O, Cloud Next, Build, re:Invent, and Interrupt across one season. The throughline isn't a winning framework; it's that the whole industry quietly admitted reliability and governance are the unsolved part.
The LangChain brand spans an abstraction library, a graph runtime, an eval/observability platform, and an expression language. Teams that blur them ship the wrong tool for the layer. Here's the clean mental model.
