Google Cloud unveiled a Gemini agent Thursday for Gmail, Docs and Slack that can run on Anthropic's Claude models, saying nearly 80% of its customers use its AI products. Key Points: The agen
Google Cloud unveiled a Gemini agent Thursday for Gmail, Docs and Slack that can run on Anthropic's Claude models, saying nearly 80% of its customers use its AI products.
Key Points:
- The agent handles multi-step tasks inside Workspace apps and can also be reached from Slack and Microsoft 365.
- It picks between Gemini and Claude models for each job, with other models planned.
- Google Cloud has not announced pricing or a general release date.
Chief Executive Thomas Kurianoutlined the product in a company blog post adapted from his keynote at the Gemini at Work 2026 event. He described a single agent that answers questions, handles knowledge work, creates images and media, and writes and runs code. Users give it "objectives, not instructions," Kurian wrote.
Inside Workspace, the agent operates in Gmail, Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Chat and Calendar, and staff can also reach it from Slack, Microsoft's 365 suite or a command line. It runs in the cloud, keeps one memory across devices and can split long jobs among temporary sub-agents that work for hours or days.
A separate coworker mode gives an agent its own Workspace account, email address and calendar, though it sees only what a team shares with it. The agent also connects to outside business systems, among them Salesforce, ServiceNow and Snowflake. It reportedly remains in private preview, with a wider rollout planned for Workspace customers on select Business and Enterprise plans.
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Kurian built his pitch around control and cost.
He wrote that enterprise agent programs succeed or stall on two questions, whether a company can govern them and whether it can afford them.
Each agent gets its own identity, and its actions land in an audit trail. Spending caps pause an agent once a project hits its limit, and Kurian argued that matching each task to a suitable model improves accuracy on hard jobs and cuts costs on simple ones.
Several details are still missing. The company has not disclosed a separate price, a general release date or independent benchmarks for the agent, and its adoption figures describe existing AI products rather than the new one.
The announcement follows a run of rival products aimed at the same corporate buyers. Microsoft added a persistent Autopilot agent to a redesigned Copilot on Sept. 25, and OpenAIintroduced its always-on Dots agents four days later. Anthropic, whose models the Gemini agent can call, brought Claude into Workspace's Docs, Sheets and Slides on Oct. 6.
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