Google Cloud introduced the Gemini agent on October 8 at its Gemini at Work 2026 event, pitching it as a single AI agent for work that can answer questions, handle tasks, create content and write code. The announcement lands as the industry races to sell autonomous workplace AI, following OpenAI's always-on agents launch in September and Meta's Muse release.

The agent plans the work, uses tools, connects to a company's business systems and returns finished work in documents, email and developer environments. It works directly inside Google Workspace apps like Gmail, Docs, Sheets and Calendar, and can also be used through Microsoft 365 and Slack. Notably, it picks the best model for each task and currently runs on both Google's Gemini models and Anthropic's Claude models, with more to be added.

Users can create 'coworker agents' that act as team members with their own email address and restricted information access. Versions for financial services and legal work are now in preview, with government, healthcare and retail versions coming soon. Google says nearly 500 of its Cloud customers processed more than a trillion tokens each over the past year, and that nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 use Gemini Enterprise.