Gemini Enterprise: Google Unveils New AI Agent for Businesses
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At its in-house event "Gemini at Work 2026," Google Cloud unveiled the so-called Gemini Agent: a single, universal AI agent that answers questions, performs knowledge work, creates images and media, and writes and executes code. The agent is an integral part of the Gemini Enterprise platform and will be included at no additional cost in existing Workspace Business and Enterprise subscriptions. Until now, the Gemini offering consisted of several individual components: a chatbot, Workspace integration, and a coding assistant. With the new Gemini Agent, Google is consolidating these functions into a single interface. Instead of formulating step-by-step instructions, Kurian says that in the future, users will simply provide the agent with a goal - and it will handle the rest on its own, including selecting the appropriate skills, tools, and data sources. Technically, the agent is based on several principles: It is accessible from anywhere (web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Slack, Microsoft 365), runs continuously in the cloud even after the laptop has been closed, and can create temporary sub-agents for more complex tasks that work in parallel or sequentially. Particularly noteworthy: The choice of model is decoupled from the agent itself. Gemini currently orchestrates both Google's own model family and Claude models from Anthropic - with additional third-party models set to...
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