Google Cloud Launches Persistent Gemini Agents with Dedicated Workspace Accounts and Claude Support

Google unveiled a persistent Gemini AI agent capable of executing multi-day tasks across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack. Managers can provision these agents as digital coworkers with dedicated Workspace accounts, including their own email addresses, Drive storage, and calendars. The platform features model flexibility, allowing customers to use Anthropic's Claude models to complete tasks instead of Google's native Gemini models. A new Smart Routing feature dynamically selects models based on workload difficulty to manage costs, backed by hard project-level spending limits and savings plans offering 10% or 20% discounts for committed terms. The system maintains session, semantic, procedural, and episodic memory to retain business context when users switch devices or pause assignments.