Google Cloud launches Gemini agent, a universal agent for work
At its Gemini at Work 2026 event, Google Cloud announced the “Gemini agent” for enterprise customers, billed as a “new single, universal agent for work” available in the Gemini Enterprise app, Google Workspace and third-party services including Slack and Microsoft 365. Google says you can “give it objectives, not instructions”: the agent runs in the cloud, routes each job to the model that fits best — including Gemini and Claude models today, with other private and open models promised later — and uses sub-agents for multi-step workflows that can run for hours or days. It is currently in private preview, with wider availability coming soon for select Workspace Business and Enterprise plans; pricing and a full launch date were not disclosed.
It shows the enterprise “universal agent” race is heating up among Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft.