Agentic AI aimed squarely at consumers
After bringing agents to developers and enterprises, Google used I/O to push the idea to everyday users with Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent in the Gemini app that navigates your digital life and takes action under your direction.
How it works
- It runs on dedicated virtual machines on Google Cloud and operates 24/7, so tasks continue in the background without keeping a device open.
- It's powered by Gemini 3.5 and Google's Antigravity harness, which lets it carry out long-horizon tasks.
- It integrates with tools - starting with Google's own and, in the following weeks, third-party tools via MCP (the Model Context Protocol).
- You can work with it in the Gemini app and, soon, through email and chat; on Android, a new UI space called Android Halo will show live agent progress, and later in the summer Spark will operate inside Chrome as an agentic browser.
The rollout
Google began rolling Spark out to trusted testers that week, with a beta coming to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US the following week. It's part of a broader agentic push across Google's products - including a "Daily Brief" agent that synthesizes inbox, calendar, and tasks into a morning digest, and agentic capabilities arriving in Search. Spark is Google's clearest statement yet that it wants the agent, running safely in the cloud, to become a default way consumers get things done.