Google Launches Agentic AI for Gemini Enterprise — SkimNews
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- Google unveiled at a Cloud event a unified Gemini agent that goes beyond answering questions to autonomously plan and execute tasks, with initial access limited to businesses before a consumer rollout.
- Sundar Pichai told the audience Gemini now has over 1 billion monthly active users and is used by nearly 90% of Fortune 100 companies through Gemini Enterprise.
- Thomas Kurian said the new agent accepts "objectives, not just instructions," enabling it to plan work, use custom skills, and connect to business systems including Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Jira, Confluence, Git, BigQuery, Databricks, Postgres, and Snowflake.
- Google will let the agent pick the best model by default while allowing users to choose alternatives — starting with Anthropic's Claude models, with open-source and other private models to follow.
- The agent is provisioned with its own Google Workspace account, email, context, and audit trail, letting colleagues tag or email it like a coworker and track its actions and subagent delegation through a "tasks inbox."
- Gemini Enterprise's named customers include BNP Paribas, Bradesco, Merck, Orange Spain, Santee Cooper, SOMPO, Ulta Beauty, and Wesfarmers, with early testers spanning On, Shopify, and PayPal.
- Google paired the launch with new cost-control features — multi-model orchestration, smart routing, and real-time spend caps — to help businesses manage enterprise AI expenses.
Why it matters: Google is converting its 1B+ Gemini user base and Fortune 100 penetration into a distribution moat for agentic AI, and by supporting Anthropic's Claude as a model option inside its own agent, Google is positioning Gemini Enterprise as a model-agnostic orchestration layer rather than just a Google model wrapper.
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