Google introduces Gemini as "a single, universal agent for work" - and says it will route jobs to Claude when Claude fits better

Google Cloud used its Gemini at Work event on 8 October to introduce what Thomas Kurian's keynote post calls "a single, universal agent for work that answers your questions, handles your knowledge work, creates your images and media, and writes and runs code". The name is simply Gemini; the page describes it as one prompt box that "plans the work, uses skills and tools, connects to your systems, and brings back something finished".

The detail that matters for buyers is which model does the job. The page says the agent runs each task "orchestrating across our Gemini family of models and Claude models from Anthropic today, and other leading private and open models in the future", and, in its words, "The best model for the task is not always the largest one". Inside Google's own suite it "works directly inside Gmail, Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Chat, and Calendar".

Scale, in Google's figures: "nearly 80% of all Google Cloud customers are using our AI products, and nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 use Gemini Enterprise". Industry versions are "now in preview for Financial Services and Legal, and coming soon to Government, Healthcare, and Retail". The customer figures on the page are the customers' own: Bradesco "cutting document review time from 1 hour to 5 minutes while reducing risk inconsistencies by 60%". No price appears on the page.