Google launches a Gemini work agent inside Gemini Enterprise

In short: Google is launching a Gemini AI agent for businesses that lets employees assign work tasks from a single interface.

What happened

Google announced a “universal” Gemini agent as part of its Gemini at Work event. The company says the agent can work across apps and devices in the background, meaning it can keep doing tasks even when you switch tools.

The agent will live inside the Gemini Enterprise app. Users can chat with it and give it assignments from one window, instead of jumping between separate screens for email, documents, and calendars.

Google says Gemini can work directly inside Google Workspace apps like Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Calendar. It can also be used from a phone, a desktop computer, and the web, plus third-party apps such as Slack and Microsoft 365.

Because it runs “in the cloud” (on Google’s servers, like using a remote computer), Google says Gemini can keep the same context across connected devices. In simple terms, it is like having a single assistant that remembers what you are doing whether you are on your laptop or your phone.

Google also says the system can use job-specific sub-agents, and companies can set up a “coworker agent” with its own identity and an @agents.company.com email address.

The new Gemini agent is available only to enterprise customers in a private preview, which is a limited early test.

Why it matters

Many people already use several work apps every day, and moving information between them can be slow. Google is pitching this as a way to hand off busywork to an assistant from one place, more like delegating tasks to a coworker than using a separate tool for each app.

Source: The Verge AI