Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration

In the contention to physique compelling idiosyncratic AI agents, Google whitethorn person an underrated advantage: it already has each your emails.

At the company’s I/O developer league connected Tuesday, Google announced a caller agentic idiosyncratic adjunct called Gemini Spark that was built from Gemini basal models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai described Spark arsenic the adjacent improvement of astute integer assistants, utilizing agentic AI to instrumentality connected long-horizon tasks with minimal oversight.

“It’s your idiosyncratic AI cause that helps you navigate your integer life, taking enactment connected your behalf and nether your direction,” Pichai told reporters during a pre-briefing of the product. “It runs connected dedicated virtual machines connected Google Cloud seamlessly, [so] you don’t request to support your laptop unfastened to marque definite it’s running.”

Spark follows a question of fashionable agentic products from large AI labs, astir notably Anthropic’s Claude Cowork and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent, but it volition person peculiar worth due to the fact that of its integration with the larger Google suite of products. Spark volition see out-of-the-box integrations with Gmail, Google Docs, and different Google Workspace products, redeeming users the enactment of mounting up connections and permissions with extracurricular apps.

Users tin email Spark straight done a dedicated Gmail address, and the cause tin interact with the web straight done Chrome. On mobile, you’ll besides beryllium capable way the agent’s advancement done the caller Android Halo system.

“Need to nonstop an email to your brag with a presumption update? Spark tin propulsion each the facts from your emails, your docs, your sheets, and slides and constitute the draught for you,” said Google Labs’ Josh Woodward, VP of the Gemini App and AI Studio. “Small businesses are utilizing Spark. They tin ticker implicit their inbox, truthful they ne'er miss a question from a customer.”

Like different agentic assistants, Spark tin beryllium integrated into a wide scope of services implicit MCP, and Google expects to rotation retired much connections successful the months to come.

Spark is presently successful investigating astatine Google; the institution expects to marque it disposable to Google AI Ultra subscribers adjacent week.