Google's Universal Gemini Agent Handles Cross-App Work — SkimNews
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- Google announced a "universal" Gemini AI agent at the Gemini at Work event Thursday, accessible through the Gemini Enterprise app for assigning tasks from a single chat interface.
- The agent works inside Workspace apps — Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Calendar — and connects to third-party platforms including Slack and Microsoft 365.
- The cloud-based agent maintains consistent context across mobile, desktop, and web, and can deploy job-specific sub-agents or operate as a "coworker agent" with its own identity and dedicated "@agents.company.com" email address.
- Gemini automatically selects the AI model best suited for each assigned task without user intervention, signaling multi-model orchestration under the hood.
- The enterprise agent is available exclusively to business customers in private preview, not general release, with no public pricing timeline.
- Google previously launched a consumer-facing Gemini Spark agent in May that performs tasks across Workspace and the web but lives in a separate interface within the Gemini app, leaving consumer and enterprise experiences split.
Why it matters: For enterprise customers, the agent consolidates task delegation into a single cloud-based interface spanning both Google and Microsoft 365 ecosystems — a direct bridge into Microsoft's own productivity territory. The "coworker agent" identity and @agents.company.com email system suggest Google is positioning Gemini as a digital employee rather than a chatbot, with pricing and wider availability still unannounced.
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