Google unveils universal Gemini agent for Gemini Enterprise

Google's announcement fits a pattern the company has been building toward: an AI assistant that is not confined to a single app or window. The new agent runs in the cloud and keeps the same context across mobile, desktop, the web, and third-party tools like Slack and Microsoft 365, which is the technical precondition for treating it as a persistent worker rather than a chat session.

The company is also drawing a line between its consumer and enterprise offerings. Gemini Spark, launched in May, gave subscribers a way to perform tasks across Workspace and the web, but through a separate interface inside the Gemini app. The universal agent announced this week is aimed at enterprise customers and lives inside the Gemini Enterprise app, where users can assign it tasks from a single place.

Google says the agent can work with job-specific sub-agents and can operate as a "coworker agent" with a dedicated identity and its own "@agents.company.com" email address. That identity framing may matter for businesses that need to track which actions were taken by an AI rather than a person, though the private preview status means the practical details are still being tested with a limited set of customers.