Google's Gemini Agent can route tasks to Claude as it chases the agent race
At its Gemini at Work event on October 8, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian introduced Gemini Agent, which pulls Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive and Chat into a single work agent and can also create “Coworker Agents” with their own email, calendar and Drive accounts. According to the report, the agent can route tasks between Google's own Gemini models and Anthropic's Claude, with more models planned, and is currently in private preview for select customers. The piece cites Google's own charts showing Gemini 4 Argon at 57.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and 55.0% on FrontierSWE v2 versus Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.4% and 62.3%, and notes Anthropic is cultivating developers through the Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code Mods and API credits.
Google handing model selection to a rival suggests enterprise agent competitiveness may hinge more on orchestration, ecosystem and task execution than on any single in-house model's leaderboard rank.