Google Cloud Announces 'Gemini Agent' as ‘Universal Agent for Work’
The agent can take objectives, coordinate sub-agents, and run tasks for hours or days while using Google and third-party tools, the company said.
- On Thursday, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian unveiled the Gemini agent at the Gemini at Work 2026 event, a new single, universal assistant for enterprise customers handling knowledge work, coding, and question-answering.
- The agent operates on delegation, where employees describe desired outcomes rather than providing instructions, using sub-agents to "tackle multi-step tasks" across Gmail, Google Docs, and Slack while maintaining persistent memory.
- Under-the-Hood, a "Smart Routing" capability evaluates workloads to assign them to the best-fitting model, including Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude, while organizing knowledge across session, semantic, procedural, and episodic memory types.
- Functioning as a persistent "coworker," the system receives its own Workspace account and calendar; Google previewed industry-specific versions for legal and financial teams integrating with NetDocuments, FactSet, and LSEG.
- Google reports nearly 90% of Fortune 100 companies are Gemini Enterprise customers, with adoption including BNP Paribas rolling out to over 65,000 staff and SOMPO constructing more than 10,000 custom agents; Alphabet stock gained about 1.5% in New York.
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Google says its Gemini AI agent can now work on behalf of group of people in office
Google has introduced a Gemini agent that can work for teams and defined roles inside organisations. The move broadens workplace automation as Anthropic's research shows AI exposure still varies sharply by profession.
Google Cloud presents Gemini Universal Work Agent as a new tool, co-uniting, feeding and programming one interface. The company replaces Gems from the new Skills. Google Cloud presents Gemini Universal Work Agent in time for the Gemini at Work 2026 Conference.
Google Cloud presents an artificial intelligence agent capable of performing complete tasks, coordinating business applications, and using rival models like Claude. The company seeks to transform productivity and challenge the Microsoft and OpenAI domain.
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