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Google Cloud announces ‘Gemini agent’ as ‘universal agent for work’
At Gemini at Work 2026, Google Cloud today announced the “Gemini agent” for enterprise customers.
Gemini agent is a “new single, universal agent for work” available in the Gemini Enterprise app, Workspace, and third-party services. Google says you can “give it objectives, not instructions.” It can answer questions, handle knowledge work, create media, and write/run code.
Besides functioning as a personal assistant, the Gemini agent can serve as a “team member, where it works on behalf of a group of people, like a project manager within a team, or on behalf of a specific role in an organization, like an analyst in your finance department.”
Under-the-hood, the Gemini agent “runs each job on the model that fits best.” This includes both the Gemini and Claude families of models today with support for other private and open models in the future. This is meant to “deliver optimal quality and lower your costs.” It uses sub-agents to “tackle multi-step tasks” and connects with various third-party tools.
Gemini can communicate with these sub-agents to coordinate workflows, including parallel and sequential steps that can run for hours or days.
The agent runs in the cloud for a “single set of memories, context, and one personalization graph.” There are four kinds of memory:
In Gmail, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Chat, you can mention @Gemini to invoke. The Gemini agent is available from any device and channel, with command line, Google Workspace, Slack, and Microsoft 365 given as examples. An API allows it to be integrated into third-party applications to surface and operate as a “headless agent, meaning it does not need a dedicated user interface.”
The Gemini agent will see wide availability soon for Workspace customers with select Business and Enterprise plans. It’s currently in private preview.
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