STUTTGART, Germany and SUNNYVALE, Calif.: The partnership will enable drivers to have natural-language conversations with the MBUX Virtual Assistant to get information from Google Maps Platform about nearby points of interest and moreMercedes-Benz is one of the first automakers to use Google Cloud’s new Automotive AI Agent solutionSTUTTGART, Germany and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Mercedes-Benz and Google Cloud today announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to introduce new conversational capabilities to the MBUX Virtual Assistant, powered by Google Cloud’s new Automotive AI Agent. Built using Gemini on Vertex AI, Google Cloud’s Automotive AI Agent is specially tuned for the automotive industry and can reference information from Google Maps Platform to give users more detailed and personalised conversational responses about navigation, points of interest, and more.