Google Cloud's Gemini Agent Gets a Mailbox and Directory Seat
TL;DR
- Each Gemini agent receives its own @agents.company.com address, calendar, and Drive seat, making it a directory-visible member of the enterprise.
- Agents run up to seven days with persistent memory and can spawn sub-agents, each carrying scoped cryptographic identities and permissions.
- Google routes tasks across 200-plus models including Anthropic Claude, with governance and tooling as the competitive differentiator over single-model lock-in.
Each Gemini "coworker agent" an enterprise sets up gets its own Workspace account: an email address, a calendar, Drive storage, and a seat in the company directory, so colleagues can delegate to it the way they would to a human teammate. Google Cloud announced the system on October 8 at its Gemini at Work event, VentureBeat reported.
"To meet this moment, today we are excited to announce the Gemini agent: your new single, universal agent for work," Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said in the company's launch post. "Work now starts in the prompt window."
The agent runs persistently in the cloud and keeps four kinds of memory: session memory "for the task in front of it, even when it runs for days," plus semantic, procedural, and episodic. It works directly inside Gmail, Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Chat, and Calendar, and reaches out to Microsoft 365 and Slack from web, mobile, and desktop.
Underneath, Google says it routes jobs across its own Gemini family (Argon for frontier reasoning, Flash for speed, Omni for generative media, Gemma for lightweight edge workloads) and Anthropic's Claude today, with "other leading private and open models in the future." A Smart Routing tool picks which model handles each job, and administrators can cap a project's AI spend in the Cloud Billing Console.
Access is scoped. "A coworker agent acts under its own identity rather than yours, and it sees only what you share with it," Google writes. Pricing and a general-availability date were not announced.
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Originally reported by venturebeat.com
Read the original article →Original headline: Google Cloud Unveils Universal Gemini Agent With Its Own Gmail, Calendar, and Drive for Multi-Day Enterprise Jobs