Google Cloud launched the Gemini agent as a single universal agent for work. It answers questions, handles knowledge work, creates media and writes and runs code. It works directly inside Gmail, Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Chat and Calendar. It carries the same memory, skills and controls across all Workspace apps. It adds new data and analytics skills for plain-language operational insights. It offers industry-specific tools for financial services and legal teams. It secures and governs agents through identity, policy, sandboxing and network controls. It includes cost controls via multi-model orchestration, Smart Routing and real-time spend caps. It runs on the best model for the job across the Gemini and Claude families. It connects to systems like Confluence, Salesforce, BigQuery and MCP servers. It uses skills, tools and context to learn business workflows and norms. It maintains session, semantic, procedural and episodic memory. It can act as a personal assistant, team member or role-specific coworker agent.
What changed
Gemini was a chat assistant and a set of separate APIs for different tasks.
What it unlocks
Delegating an outcome and returning to finished work across documents, inboxes and developer environments.
- nearly 500 Google Cloud customers processed >1T tokens
- 80% of Google Cloud customers use AI products
- 90% of Fortune 100 use Gemini Enterprise
- 65,000 BNP Paribas employees use LLM@CIB
What you need to act on it
- a Google Cloud or Workspace license
- enterprise admin setup for identity and policy controls
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