Google unveils Gemini agent for businesses, with no price yet
It runs inside Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Slack, and Google has not given a general availability date; a consumer version will come later.
Google unveiled its Gemini agent on Oct. 8, an assistant that carries out multistep tasks on its own, but for now only for businesses, with no price and no general availability date. A user in Mexico cannot sign up today. A consumer version will come later, also without a timeline, according to TechCrunch.
The announcement came at the Gemini at Work event. According to Google Cloud's blog, the agent answers questions, does office tasks, generates images, and writes and runs code from a single text box. It can spin up temporary "subagents" and is complemented by persistent agents, one per role, which Google calls coworkers. Each gets its own Google Workspace account, the company's office suite, with its own email. What it does is logged under the agent's name, not a person's.
The part that matters most to an IT department is control. Google describes per-project spending limits, monitored in real time, that stop the agent when they run out, and routing that splits work among models, including Anthropic's Claude models from launch. Each agent would have least-privilege permissions, an isolated environment called Agent Sandbox and its own firewall, Agent Gateway. These are Google's descriptions.
There are versions for web, iOS, Android, Windows and Mac, plus one for the terminal, and the agent works inside Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Slack. Industry versions are moving at different speeds. Those for financial services and legal are in preview; government, health and retail are listed as "coming soon".
The adoption figures are also Google's. Sundar Pichai, its chief executive, said Gemini has passed one billion monthly active users and that almost 90% of Fortune 100 companies use Gemini Enterprise. Thomas Kurian, head of Google Cloud, said the agent can take "objectives, not just instructions".
There are no independent tests of the agent: everything published comes from Google and its customers. The price, the countries and the date it stops being a business-only product are still pending.
