Google Cloud launches the Gemini agent, a single agent for work that plans tasks and connects to business systems
Google is releasing it to businesses first and says consumers will come later. Sundar Pichai says Gemini has more than 1 billion monthly users.
At its Gemini at Work 2026 event on Thursday, Google Cloud announced the Gemini agent, which it calls a universal agent for work. Users give it tasks from a single prompt box. Google says it can plan work, use skills and tools, connect to customers' business systems and return finished results inside the documents, inboxes and developer environments people already use. The company says the agent chooses the best model for each job, has built-in cost controls, and includes the security, administration and governance features that enterprise customers require. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said the agent can be given "objectives, not just instructions." Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Gemini has more than 1 billion monthly active users and that nearly 90 percent of Fortune 100 companies use Gemini Enterprise. TechCrunch reports that Google will bring the agent to businesses before consumers. According to Pichai, this lets the company first solve harder problems around security, scale and performance. The launch follows consumer agents such as Meta's Muse and messaging-based agents including Instinct, as well as ChatGPT's recently launched Dots.