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8 October 2026 at 18:18•2 min read
Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses
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Executive Takeaways • Key Intelligence
▪Strategic intelligence desk confirms key developments surrounding Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, exe.
▪International stakeholders analyze: The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets
▪Multilateral policy, financial liquidity, and regulatory frameworks face direct realignments.
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Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its own workplace identity, complete with an email address. Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2. Book Exhibit Table Now.
Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. At a Google Cloud event on Thursday, the company announced it’s bringing its Gemini AI into the agentic age, with the launch of a unified agent that can not only answer questions but also get things done on the user’s behalf, all from a single interface.
The move comes as AI tools have been moving beyond being just conversational experiences to those that can take ownership of assigned tasks, generate code, schedule meetings, book appointments and travel, and more.
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It also follows the rise of consumer-facing agents like Meta’s Muse and those that operate over messaging, like Instinct and others, as well as the recent debut of ChatGPT’s Dots. The company still has a good shot at achieving scale for its agentic efforts: as Google CEO Sundar Pichai pointed out at the event’s start, Gemini today has over 1 billion monthly active users.
He also noted that nearly 90% of Fortune 100 businesses now use Gemini Enterprise at work. Given Gemini’s adoption in the corporate world, Google will initially focus on bringing the agent to businesses before later rolling it out to consumers.
According to Pichai, this will allow the company to solve the “harder problems around security, scale, and performance,” which come with launching powerful agents such as these. ” That means it’s able to plan the work, use custom skills and tools, and connect to businesses’ internal systems to accomplish its goals.
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