# Google Publishes AX, an Open-Source Distributed Runtime for Agent Workloads

The project treats agents as long-running, resumable processes with snapshot-based recovery and trajectory branching, and targets billions of tasks per cluster.

- Published: 2026-09-21T06:21:17.793Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-09-21/google-publishes-ax-an-open-source-distributed-runtime-for-a
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [AX project site](https://agentexecutor.io/), [Google Research](https://research.google/research-areas/), [Techzine](https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/141577/google-launches-open-source-runtime-for-ai-agents/)

Google has released AX, short for Agent Executor, as an open-source distributed runtime for agentic workloads under the Apache 2.0 licence. The project describes itself as a declarative orchestrator built for dynamic scheduling, resumption,…

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