Google plans to bring persistent agents across its products

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Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.

1. 30:02

   Is it possible to make search and Gmail powered by Gemini as good as search and Gmail that you access when you plug Gmail into your ChatGPT interface? What's going on here? I think we have... One of the exciting things we announced recently is in a unified Gemini agent for enterprise, which we have announced, and we're bringing that to consumers, right? So these are persistent agents which run 24-7 in the cloud, like you're spinning up a micro VM effectively for every query.

2. 30:47

   And, you know, from the runtime, the harness, the model, it's all a headless service, right? and it'll work everywhere and it has your context with you. You can address this agent whether you're in workspace, in search, you know, in Gemini, all of it. So I think agents are going to drive this unification from a customer experience, which people are looking for. And you are right. When you have a broad product portfolio and you're moving forward fast, there are always areas where you're moving forward faster than some other areas, that's a valid feedback, right?

3. 31:27

   But we are putting a lot of time and effort into making sure as we build out our agentic experience, that unification and that capability works well across all these surfaces. Okay. That's a good answer to the interface question, too. Yes, it is. Yeah. When people have thought about where Google plays next, a question comes up, you know, where's Google's Muse or its Dots product? Those have kind of come out of nowhere recently and they've taken off. You have a version of that. Do you anticipate creating a new product that competes with, let's just say Muse, for instance?

4. 32:09

   Look, we already today, so the way we have envisioned this, in fact, we described Gemini, our goal with Gemini app to be a personal, proactive, and powerful assistant, right? That's what we are working towards. And you saw us describe the early versions of it at Google I.O. this year with Spark. But effectively, already, if you open the Gemini app as a pro or an ultra user, you see chat and task, and they start giving you that agentic experience.

5. 32:45

   With Argon now, that capability is dramatically accelerated. And what we announced recently in our enterprise event, we are bringing that to consumers as well. But over time, so you will soon in Gemini, you will be able to ask something and that will, it's a continuum. You don't need to think about whether you're asking a chat or a agentic task. It'll just kind of automatically do the right thing and it can work persistently on the background securely and get things done for you. Already, empirically, when I look at what's coming into Gemini in our app, about last year, you would have tagged them, and most of them would have been chats.

6. 33:31

   But a steadily growing percentage is already agentic tasks in Gemini. And so, yes, we are going to bring personal agents to our consumers. It'll work in the Gemini app. It'll work in Google search. It'll work in Gmail. You can address it, call it, etc. But we want to make sure we're getting it right. It'll be powered by Argonne. And so we're very excited to