Welcome to Gemini at Work 2026: Introducing the Gemini agent

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. It includes a number of announcements:

• Gemini, a single, universal agent for work that answers your questions, handles your knowledge work, creates your images and media, and writes and runs code. 

• Inline in Workspace, Gemini works directly inside Gmail, Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Chat, and Calendar, carrying the same memory, skills, and controls it has everywhere else.

• New data and analytics skills that allow both technical teams and everyday business users to use plain-language questions to get to actionable operational insights in minutes. 

• Industry-specific specializationwith tools, skills, connectors and knowledge specific for financial services and legal teams.

• How we secure and govern agentsthrough identity and policy management, authorization and permission controls, secure sandboxing, network gateways, and more.

• Leading cost controls through multi-model orchestration, Smart Routing, real-time spend caps, and more.

• Customer use cases that showcase the breadth and depth of our customers around the world.