Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud’s chief executive, introduced a Gemini agent on Thursday that is meant to turn up in a company’s working life with its own account, email address, calendar and listing in the company directory. Kurian unveiled the system at Google Cloud’s Gemini at Work 2026 event for enterprise customers.
The agent is a single artificial intelligence system that Google says can handle knowledge work, content creation, coding and question-answering through one interface. It works across the web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, command line, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Slack.
The idea is delegation rather than a stream of individual prompts. An employee tells the agent what needs doing; it determines how to do the work and returns a result.
Google is presenting this as a persistent coworker for teams. Each agent receives its own Workspace account and workplace identity, while its access is confined to information that team members choose to provide instead of extending automatically across the wider organisation.
That arrangement would give businesses a way to assign work to an AI system while defining the information available to it. The practical question for teams will be how much responsibility they choose to delegate through systems linked to their day-to-day communications and schedules.
The agent keeps four kinds of memory: session memory for active tasks; semantic memory built from documents and conversations; procedural memory covering how work is done; and episodic memory of earlier completed assignments.
It currently works with Google’s Gemini models and Anthropic’s Claude models, and Google plans to add further models. A Smart Routing feature assesses each workload and selects the model that offers the most favourable balance of quality and cost.
There are some financial guardrails. Administrators can set spending thresholds for individual projects, and the agent automatically pauses its operations when it reaches those limits.
The agent is in private preview. Google plans broader availability for Workspace customers on select Business and Enterprise plans.
Google also announced versions tailored to particular industries. Agents for financial services and legal teams are in preview, while versions for government, healthcare and retail are described as forthcoming. The financial services version has more than 50 skills.
Close to 90% of Fortune 100 companies are Gemini Enterprise customers, giving Google a large group of potential early users for an agent built to remain on the team rather than simply answer from the sidelines.
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