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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Google. Co-founder, Google (Chrome DevTools team). Co-founder, Google Cloud.\n\nLarry Page co-founded Google with Sergey Brin, starting from Backrub, a Stanford search engine that ranked web pages by the links pointing to them, and co-created the PageRank algorithm. He was Google's CEO from 1997 to 2001 and again from 2011 to 2015, when he became CEO of its new parent company, Alphabet.\n\n## What Larry builds\n\n- [Antigravity CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antigravity-cli.md), graded C, 57.7/100, in Agent harnesses. Google's terminal agent for coding tasks, distributed as a closed-source binary and installed as agy. It replaces Gemini CLI for consumer accounts. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ap2.md), graded C, 55.5/100, in Agent checkout protocols. Google's protocol for authorising agent payments, now governed by the FIDO Alliance. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Chrome DevTools MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/chrome-devtools-mcp.md), graded BB, 75.4/100, in Browser automation. Lets coding agents control and inspect a live Chrome instance. Co-founder, Google (Chrome DevTools team), researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Firebase Cloud Messaging](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firebase-cloud-messaging.md), graded B, 69.9/100, in Notifications. Google's push messaging service for Android, Apple and web apps. A server sends notification or data messages to devices, topics or conditions through the HTTP v1 API or the Firebase Admin SDKs. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Gemini Developer API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-api.md), graded B, 65.5/100, in Model APIs \u0026 inference. Google's API for Gemini models, including content generation and agent interactions. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Gemini CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-cli.md), graded B, 66.8/100, in Agent harnesses. Google's open-source coding agent for the terminal, in TypeScript on Node 20 or newer. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Gemini Embedding](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-embedding.md), graded BB, 70.6/100, in Embeddings \u0026 rerankers. gemini-embedding-2, Google's multimodal embedding model, takes text, images, video, audio and PDFs into one 3072-dimension space (truncatable to 128) at 8,192 input tokens in 100+ languages. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Gemini Enterprise](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-enterprise.md), graded B, 66.4/100, in Company knowledge \u0026 data catalogues. Google Cloud's enterprise assistant, which searches and acts across a company's connected apps and data. Developers call the assistant through the StreamAssist method of the Discovery Engine API, and agents registered in it over A2A. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Gemini Live API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-live.md), graded C, 57.1/100, in Conversational voice agents. Google's Live API runs real-time spoken conversations with Gemini audio-to-audio models over a stateful WebSocket. It takes audio, images and text, speaks back, and supports interruptions, function calling and Google Search grounding. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Gmail API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gmail-api.md), graded A, 78.6/100, in Mailbox access. Google's REST API for Gmail mailboxes. It searches and reads messages and threads, writes drafts, sends mail, manages labels and settings, and reports mailbox changes through history records and Cloud Pub/Sub push notifications. Access is by OAuth 2.0. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Agent Development Kit (ADK)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-adk.md), graded BB, 73.7/100, in Agent frameworks \u0026 SDKs. Google's code-first toolkit to build, evaluate and deploy agents in Python, TypeScript, Go, Java and Kotlin. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Google Ads API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-ads-api.md), graded BB, 76.4/100, in Advertising \u0026 campaign operations. Google's API for managing Google Ads accounts, campaigns, budgets, audiences, ads and performance reports over gRPC or REST, with OAuth 2.0 access. Google also publishes an open-source, read-only MCP server that runs Google Ads Query Language reports. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Google Calendar API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-calendar-api.md), graded A, 79.6/100, in Calendars \u0026 scheduling. Google Calendar's REST API for accessing calendars and managing events. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Google Cloud Document AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-document-ai.md), graded BB, 73.9/100, in Document parsing \u0026 extraction. Google Cloud's service for OCR, layout parsing, chunking, form and table extraction, classification and splitting of documents. Work runs through processors created per project and location. Access is a REST and gRPC API with client libraries in eight languages. Co-founder, Google Cloud, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Google Cloud Translation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-translation.md), graded B, 68.1/100, in Translation. Google's API for translating text and documents. Co-founder, Google Cloud, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Google Drive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-drive-api.md), graded BB, 75.5/100, in File storage \u0026 sharing. REST API for a user's or a Workspace organisation's Drive, files, folders, permissions and share links, with resumable uploads and change feeds. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Google Forms API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-forms.md), graded BB, 70.8/100, in Forms, surveys \u0026 structured intake. REST API from Google for creating and editing Google Forms forms and quizzes, reading responses and quiz grades, and subscribing to change notifications through Cloud Pub/Sub. Access is by OAuth 2.0. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Google Imagen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-imagen.md), graded F, 6.8/100, in Image generation. Discontinued Google image generation models, formerly available through the Gemini API and Vertex AI. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Google Lyria](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-lyria.md), graded D, 48.6/100, in Music generation. Google's music generation models for full songs, short clips and streamed audio through the Gemini API. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-maps-platform.md), graded B, 68.3/100, in Maps, geocoding \u0026 places. Geocoding, Places API (New) for text, nearby and detail search, Routes for routes and matrices, Address Validation, static maps and map tiles. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Google Cloud Model Armor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-model-armor.md), graded BB, 77.9/100, in Guardrails \u0026 safety filters. Google Cloud's prompt and response screening service. Co-founder, Google Cloud, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Google People API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-people-api.md), graded B, 64.3/100, in Contacts \u0026 address books. Google's REST API for a user's Google Contacts, contact groups, \"Other contacts\" and Workspace directory profiles, with incremental sync tokens and a read-only remote MCP server in developer preview. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Google Search Console API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-search-console.md), graded C, 59/100, in SEO \u0026 search visibility. REST API from Google for Search Console data on sites the user manages. It returns clicks, impressions and average position by query, page, country and device, inspects a URL's index status and manages sitemaps. Access is by OAuth 2.0. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-secret-manager.md), graded BB, 77.4/100, in Secrets \u0026 credential vaults. Google Cloud's managed service for storing and accessing application secrets. Co-founder, Google Cloud, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Google Sheets API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-sheets-api.md), graded BB, 76.3/100, in Spreadsheets \u0026 operational tables. REST API from Google for reading and writing Google Sheets spreadsheets, covering cell values, ranges, formulas, formatting, tables and comments. Access is by OAuth 2.0, and a six-tool MCP server is in Developer Preview. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Google Cloud Speech-to-Text](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-speech-to-text.md), graded BB, 70.3/100, in Speech-to-text. Google Cloud's transcription API. Co-founder, Google Cloud, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Google Veo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-veo.md), graded C, 60.4/100, in Video generation. Google's Veo video models through the Gemini API (predictLongRunning) and Vertex AI. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Google Weather API (Maps Platform)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-weather-api.md), graded B, 66.9/100, in Weather \u0026 climate data. Google Maps Platform's API for weather data. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Puppeteer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/puppeteer.md), graded BB, 70.8/100, in Browser automation. Puppeteer is Google's open-source Node.js library for controlling Chrome and Firefox over the DevTools Protocol and WebDriver BiDi. An agent writes and runs scripts that navigate, click, type, read pages and take screenshots. Co-founder, Google, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Vertex AI Gemini tuning](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vertex-ai-tuning.md), graded B, 64.2/100, in Fine-tuning. Supervised, preference and reinforcement tuning of Gemini, plus supervised tuning of Gemma, Llama and Qwen, on Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (the platform formerly called Vertex AI). Co-founder, Google Cloud, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Adam Roberts](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/adam-roberts/), Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind; Lyria RealTime coauthor\n- [Ali H. Çevik](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ali-h-cevik/), Product Lead for Gemini API\n- [Andrea Agostinelli](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andrea-agostinelli/), Staff Research Engineer, Google DeepMind; Lyria model developer\n- [Andreas R.](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andreas-r/), Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead, Gmail API and MCP\n- [Antoine Caillon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/antoine-caillon/), Research Scientist, Google DeepMind; Lyria RealTime coauthor\n- [Hadas Asscher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/hadas-asscher/), Product Manager, Weather API and Google Geo Sustainability\n- [Kai Wu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/kai-wu/), Software Engineer, Firebase Cloud Messaging; agentic infrastructure\n- [Sergey Brin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sergey-brin/), Co-founder, Google\n- [Shrestha Basu Mallick](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shrestha-basu-mallick/), Product Lead, Gemini Enterprise\n- [Srinath Padmanabhan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/srinath-padmanabhan/), Product Manager, Google Cloud IDE Plugins; Gemini CLI product contributor\n- [Sudev Bohra](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sudev-bohra/), Engineering lead, Gmail Storage, MCP/API and AI Backend\n- [Taylor Mullen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/taylor-mullen/), Gemini CLI creator/former lead; now Principal Engineer, Google DeepMind\n- [Tulsee Doshi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tulsee-doshi/), Senior Director and Head of Product, Gemini Model\n- [Vikas Anand](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/vikas-anand/), Director of Product, AI-native developer platform\n- [Yael Maguire](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yael-maguire/), VP and General Manager, Google Maps Platform and Google Earth\n- [Yang Guo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yang-guo/), Engineering lead, Chrome Developer Experience\n- [Rao Surapaneni](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rao-surapaneni/), VP/GM, Business Applications Platform, Google Cloud; co-author of the AP2 launch post\n- [Stavan Parikh](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/stavan-parikh/), VP/GM, Payments, Google; co-author of the AP2 launch and FIDO donation posts\n- [Brad Meador](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brad-meador/), Group Product Manager; Data Protection Lead, GCP\n- [Haris Ioannou](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/haris-ioannou/), AI Product Lead, Gemini Audio, Google Cloud\n- [Rohit Kumbhalwar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rohit-kumbhalwar/), Engineering Manager, GCP Secret Manager\n- [Sarah Weldon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sarah-weldon/), Lead Product Manager, Translation AI\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Larry Page?\n\nLarry Page co-founded Google with Sergey Brin, starting from Backrub, a Stanford search engine that ranked web pages by the links pointing to them, and co-created the PageRank algorithm. He was Google's CEO from 1997 to 2001 and again from 2011 to 2015, when he became CEO of its new parent company, Alphabet.\n\n### What does Google, Google (AP2 donated to the FIDO Alliance), Google (Chrome DevTools team), Google Cloud make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Antigravity CLI, Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), Chrome DevTools MCP, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Gemini Developer API, Gemini CLI, Gemini Embedding, Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Live API, Gmail API, Agent Development Kit (ADK), Google Ads API, Google Calendar API, Google Cloud Document AI, Google Cloud Translation, Google Drive API + MCP, Google Forms API, Google Imagen, Google Lyria, Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP, Google Cloud Model Armor, Google People API, Google Search Console API, Google Cloud Secret Manager, Google Sheets API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, Google Veo, Google Weather API (Maps Platform), Puppeteer and Vertex AI Gemini tuning from Google, Google (AP2 donated to the FIDO Alliance), Google (Chrome DevTools team), Google Cloud. Google's terminal agent for coding tasks, distributed as a closed-source binary and installed as agy. It replaces Gemini CLI for consumer accounts.\n\n### How are Larry's tools graded?\n\nAntigravity CLI is graded C, 57.7 out of 100; Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) is graded C, 55.5 out of 100; Chrome DevTools MCP is graded BB, 75.4 out of 100; Firebase Cloud Messaging is graded B, 69.9 out of 100; Gemini Developer API is graded B, 65.5 out of 100; Gemini CLI is graded B, 66.8 out of 100; Gemini Embedding is graded BB, 70.6 out of 100; Gemini Enterprise is graded B, 66.4 out of 100; Gemini Live API is graded C, 57.1 out of 100; Gmail API is graded A, 78.6 out of 100; Agent Development Kit (ADK) is graded BB, 73.7 out of 100; Google Ads API is graded BB, 76.4 out of 100; Google Calendar API is graded A, 79.6 out of 100; Google Cloud Document AI is graded BB, 73.9 out of 100; Google Cloud Translation is graded B, 68.1 out of 100; Google Drive API + MCP is graded BB, 75.5 out of 100; Google Forms API is graded BB, 70.8 out of 100; Google Imagen is graded F, 6.8 out of 100; Google Lyria is graded D, 48.6 out of 100; Google Maps Platform + Grounding Lite MCP is graded B, 68.3 out of 100; Google Cloud Model Armor is graded BB, 77.9 out of 100; Google People API is graded B, 64.3 out of 100; Google Search Console API is graded C, 59 out of 100; Google Cloud Secret Manager is graded BB, 77.4 out of 100; Google Sheets API is graded BB, 76.3 out of 100; Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is graded BB, 70.3 out of 100; Google Veo is graded C, 60.4 out of 100; Google Weather API (Maps Platform) is graded B, 66.9 out of 100; Puppeteer is graded BB, 70.8 out of 100; Vertex AI Gemini tuning is graded B, 64.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikasanandsf/\n- https://about.google/intl/ALL_en/our-story/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/google\n- https://x.com/Google\n- https://antigravity.google/support\n- https://ap2-protocol.org\n- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-agents-to-payments-ap2-protocol\n- https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/google-pay/agent-payments-protocol-fido-alliance/\n- https://fidoalliance.org/fido-alliance-to-develop-standards-for-trusted-ai-agent-interactions/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ouggnay/\n- https://firebase.blog/posts/2023/08/fcm-for-safari\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/zwu52/\n- https://firebase.google.com/support\n- https://firebase.google.com/support/troubleshooter/contact\n- https://firebase.google.com/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicevik/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7462720959725334528/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tulsee-doshi/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ntaylormullen/details/experience/\n- https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transitioning-gemini-cli-to-antigravity-cli\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ntaylormullen\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/srithreepo/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/srithreepo/details/experience/\n- https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli\n- https://www.geminicli.com/docs/resources/troubleshooting\n- https://ai.google.dev/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shresthabm/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/google-cloud/\n- https://cloud.google.com/support\n- https://cloud.google.com/contact\n- https://cloud.google.com/support-hub\n- https://support.google.com/g/answer/16938246\n- https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/generative-ai/gemini-enterprise/get-support\n- https://cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasricci/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudevbohra/\n- https://developers.google.com/workspace/support\n- https://developers.google.com/\n- https://adk.dev/\n- https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/support/api-issues\n- https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/support\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-weldon-mba14/details/experience/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-weldon-mba14\n- https://cloud.google.com/translate\n- https://developers.google.com/workspace/forms/api/support\n- https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=%22Veo%22\u0026currentCompany=%5B%221441%22%5D\n- https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04651\n- https://deepmind.google/models/lyria/\n- https://x.com/ada_rob\n- https://caillonantoine.github.io\n- https://x.com/antoine_caillon\n- https://ch.linkedin.com/in/andrea-agostinelli\n- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs\n- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing\n- https://cloud.google.com/support/billing\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/yael-maguire-9547343/\n- https://mapsplatform.google.com/\n- https://developers.google.com/maps/support\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohitkumbhalwar/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=%22Secret%20Manager%22\u0026currentCompany=%5B%221441%22%5D\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleymeador/\n- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/google-cloud-speech-to-text-v2-api\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/charalamposioannou/\n- https://docs.cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/support\n- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hadas-asscher-30860422_blog-introducing-the-google-maps-platform-activity-7317907958011510785-soBO\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/hadas-asscher-30860422/details/experience/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/hadas-asscher-30860422\n- https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/weather/support\n- https://pptr.dev/\n- https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. 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