Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses

At a Google Cloud event on Thursday, Google announced that its Gemini AI is entering the agentic age with the launch of a unified agent that can answer questions and perform tasks on the user's behalf from a single interface. The company will initially focus on businesses before rolling it out to consumers, citing Gemini's adoption in the corporate world, with over 1 billion monthly active users and nearly 90% of Fortune 100 companies using Gemini Enterprise. The new agent can be given objectives rather than instructions, plan work, use custom skills and tools, and connect to internal systems such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Jira, and others. It supports third-party models like Anthropic's Claude, operates via a tasks inbox, and has its own Workspace account with an audit trail. Early testers include On, Shopify, and PayPal, and enterprise customers include BNP Paribas, Bradesco, Merck, and others. Google also introduced flexible spending options to help control enterprise AI costs.

(Source：TechCrunch)