Google has put forward the most complete enterprise agent design we have seen from a hyperscaler, with identity, policy, cost control, memory, and model choice designed in from the start. … Google Cloud announced the Gemini agent at its Gemini at Work 2026 event, describing it as a single, universal agent for work. Users assign it objectives rather than step-by-step instructions, and it answers questions, handles knowledge work, generates images and media, and writes and runs code from one interface and one API. The agent runs in the cloud with persistent memory and context, can be reached from web, mobile, desktop, the command line, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack, and can operate headlessly inside third-party applications. It can spin up temporary sub-agents for multi-step jobs that run for hours or days, and it can create persistent coworker agents that receive their own Workspace accounts, including email addresses, calendars, and Drive storage.”
And:
Google says the agent routes each job to the model that fits best, drawing on its own Gemini models and Anthropic’s Claude models today, with OpenAI and open-weights models to follow. Governance features include cryptographically attested agent identities, role-based permissions, audit trails attributed to the agent, an Agent Sandbox with its own network boundary, and Agent Gateway, which enforces policy on all traffic in, out of, and between agents. Cost controls include smart routing between models and real-time spend caps set per project, with per-user caps to follow. Google also introduced industry specializations for financial services and legal, both in preview. The Gemini agent is in private preview, and Google expects general availability by the end of October 2026, starting in North America."
Also, good partnering scheme to extend outside of Google-world:
Google’s answer is to put the Gemini agent inside partners’ applications, including Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, and Slack, so those vendors keep control of their user experience and customer relationship. That is a shrewd pitch to SaaS vendors worried about agents stripping away their brand equity, and it sets Google apart, it argues, from rivals telling the market that SaaS is dead. It is a harder sell to Microsoft, which has a competing agent of its own, and it sits awkwardly alongside our point that coworker agents could erode the seat counts those same SaaS vendors depend on.
And, usage:
The company says nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 use Gemini Enterprise, and Futurum’s September 2026 survey found that 22% of 469 respondents currently use the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for AI application development and plan to continue, with a further 21% planning to evaluate or adopt it.
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