In the race to build compelling personal AI agents, Google may have an underrated advantage: It already has all your emails.<\/p>\n
At its Google I\/O developer conference<\/a> on Tuesday, the company announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark that was built from Gemini base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.<\/a><\/p>\n Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai described Spark as the next evolution of smart digital assistants, using agentic AI to take on long-horizon tasks with minimal oversight.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s your personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life, taking action on your behalf and under your direction,\u201d Pichai told reporters during a pre-briefing of the product. \u201cIt runs on dedicated virtual machines on Google Cloud seamlessly, [so] you don\u2019t need to keep your laptop open to make sure it\u2019s running.\u201d<\/p>\n Spark follows a wave of popular agentic products from major AI labs, most notably Anthropic\u2019s Claude Cowork and OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT agent<\/a>, but it will have particular value because of its integration with the larger Google suite of products. Spark will include out-of-the-box integrations with Gmail, Google Docs, and other Google Workspace products, saving users the work of setting up connections and permissions with outside apps.<\/p>\n Users can email Spark directly through a dedicated Gmail address, and the agent can interact with the web directly through Chrome. On mobile, you\u2019ll also be able to track the agent\u2019s progress through the new Android Halo system.<\/p>\n \u201cNeed to send an email to your boss with a status update? Spark can pull all the facts from your emails, your docs, your sheets, and slides and write the draft for you,\u201d said Google Labs\u2019 Josh Woodward, VP of the Gemini App and AI Studio. \u201cSmall businesses are using Spark. They can watch over their inbox, so they never miss a question from a customer.\u201d<\/p>\n Like other agentic assistants, Spark can be integrated into a wide range of services over MCP, and Google expects to roll out more connections in the months to come. <\/p>\n Spark is currently in testing at Google; the company expects to make it available to Google AI Ultra subscribers next week.<\/p>\n Catch up on the rest of Google IO 2026\u2019s big news<\/p>\n Google Search as you know it is over<\/a><\/p>\n Google updates Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude<\/a><\/p>\n Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24\/7 agent assistant with Gmail integration<\/a><\/p>\n