Google Launches Gemini Spark: A 24/7 AI Agent That Wants to Make You Ditch OpenClaw

Google’s Gemini app has more than 900 million monthly users. Up till now, most of them used it as a really good chatbox. That modifications right this moment.

At Google I/O 2026, the corporate introduced Gemini Spark, a private AI agent that does not wait to be requested. It manages duties throughout your apps across the clock, flags issues that want your consideration, and finishes jobs within the background when you’re busy doing actually the rest, together with sleeping.

Spark runs on Gemini 3.5 and is constructed on Google’s Antigravity harness—the identical agent infrastructure behind the corporate’s personal inside instruments. In contrast to OpenClaw, Spark lives within the cloud, on devoted Google digital machines, so you do not want your cellphone unlocked or your laptop computer open for it to maintain going.

Out of the field, Spark can deal with recurring duties and do a lot of the on a regular basis duties you might have dealt with to your Openclaw or Hermes agent.

It might mechanically scan your month-to-month bank card statements for brand new or hidden subscriptions. It might monitor your child’s faculty emails, pull out necessary deadlines, and ship you and your associate a day by day digest. It might pull uncooked notes from a gathering scattered throughout your Gmail and Docs, write them up right into a clear doc, and ship the follow-up e-mail to kick off the subsequent part of a undertaking.

You can too train it customized abilities—primarily programming it along with your preferences so it handles particular workflows the way in which you need them dealt with.

None of this was an entire shock. Final week, builders digging by the Gemini Android app’s newest beta construct found the “Gemini Spark” name—beforehand labeled internally as “Gemini Agent”—together with a welcome display screen that described the identical use circumstances Google introduced right this moment. Some inside references additionally referred to as the undertaking “Remy.”

The leaked code additionally included a disclaimer Google is preserving within the official launch: Spark “might do issues like share your information or make purchases with out asking.” The corporate says it is designed to request permission earlier than high-stakes actions, however customers are suggested to oversee it.

What’s linked—and what’s coming

At launch, Spark works natively with Gmail, Google Docs, Slides, and the broader Google Workspace suite. Beginning right this moment, it additionally features MCP connections to Canva, OpenTable, and Instacart—which means it may begin doing issues like reserving a restaurant or inserting an order, not simply drafting the message about it.

Decrypt wasn’t in a position to take a look at the agent proper now to see if it helps custom MCP configurations, as a result of it’s nonetheless in restricted entry.

Over the summer time, Google plans so as to add the power to textual content and e-mail Spark straight, create customized sub-agents, and let it function your native browser. A macOS desktop model can also be coming, which can lengthen its attain to native information.

The broader AI agent wave has been constructing for months—open-source tools exploded and self-improving agents began going viral on GitHub. Spark is Google’s reply to all of it: no terminal, no setup, no GitHub stars required. Simply 900 million current customers, a deep integration with instruments they already depend on, and an agent that will get to work the second you flip it on.

Trusted testers get entry this week. U.S. Google AI Extremely subscribers—whose plan Google is cutting from $250 to $200 a month—get beta entry subsequent week.