The open-source OpenClaw launched the start of the personalized AI agent craze, and now the major players are getting in on the action with their own walled-garden offerings. Enter Gemini Spark, Google’s “personal AI agent” offering announced during the company’s Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday.
According to Google, Spark is designed to be a “personal AI agent that helps navigate your digital life.” It will ostensibly allow users to hand out more complicated, multi-step tasks and trust Gemini Spark to handle them autonomously in the background across multiple platforms.
Gemini Spark is your new 24/7 personal AI agent.
Give it a task and it works autonomously in the background, even if your phone and laptop are turned off. You choose to turn it on and it's designed to check with you before taking major actions. #GoogleIO
— Google Gemini (@GeminiApp) May 19, 2026
In a demonstration of the agent’s capabilities, Google’s Vice President of Google Labs, Gemini, and AI Studio Josh Woodward showed Spark working to draft an email on his behalf. Seems simple enough. But Woodward tasked the agent with collecting information from Google Docs, emails, and chat conversations before running a skill designed to draft the email in Woodward’s voice. In a second demo, Woodward showed Spark compiling a list of people who RSVP’d to a block party and building a document that itemizes what each person is planning to bring. That document auto-updates when a new email related to the event comes into Woodward’s inbox.
Google offered some other examples of what Spark can do via a blog post, including setting recurring tasks or triggers, learning new skills like sending a digest of events to relevant contacts, and creating workflows from raw material like meeting notes.
Introducing Gemini Spark ✨
It’s your 24/7 personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life, taking action on your behalf, and under your direction.
🧠 It runs on Gemini 3.5 and is built on @Antigravity, so it can perform long-running tasks easily in the background.… pic.twitter.com/NX9CCMBGPT
— Google (@Google) May 19, 2026
It’s not too difficult to imagine the functionality of Spark, though it does seem quite dependent on being deeply ingrained in the Google ecosystem. The company did announce that it will add functionality across Gemini-connected apps like Canva, OpenTable, and Instacart, which will allow Spark to work across those platforms. It’s also promising the ability to text and email with Spark and create sub-agents to handle complex tasks.
Per Google, Spark will be powered by the company’s Gemini 3.5 Flash model, the latest iteration of its flagship model that it also announced on stage at Google I/O. It’ll run on dedicated virtual machines that are set to be available 24/7, meaning you can give Spark a task and let it run in the background until it’s complete—and it’ll keep working even if you close your laptop.
Spark will reportedly be available on Android, iOS, and via web app to start, with plans to allow it to operate directly in Chrome in the near future. It’ll open to “trusted testers” this week and get a wider release as a “beta” product starting next week, with Google AI Ultra subscribers getting access. Google announced that its high-end Ultra plan price will drop to $200 per month, and it’s also introducing a new $100 lower-end Ultra tier (maybe just call it something else, eh?) that will have access to Spark.
