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

Google’s Gemini app has greater than 900 million month-to-month customers. Up till now, most of them used it as a really good chatbox. That modifications at this time.

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 anything, 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. Not like OpenClaw, Spark lives within the cloud, on devoted Google digital machines, so you do not want your telephone 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’ve got dealt with to your Openclaw or Hermes agent.

It could actually robotically scan your month-to-month bank card statements for brand new or hidden subscriptions. It could actually monitor your child’s faculty emails, pull out essential deadlines, and ship you and your associate a each day digest. It could actually 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 may as well 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 means of the Gemini Android app’s newest beta construct discovered the “Gemini Spark” title—beforehand labeled internally as “Gemini Agent”—together with a welcome display screen that described the identical use circumstances Google introduced at this time. Some inside references additionally known as the undertaking “Remy.”

The leaked code additionally included a disclaimer Google is protecting within the official launch: Spark “could 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 at this time, it additionally features MCP connections to Canva, OpenTable, and Instacart—which means it may well 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 check the agent proper now to see if it helps customized MCP configurations, as a result of it’s nonetheless in restricted entry.

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

The broader AI agent wave has been constructing for months—open-source instruments exploded and self-improving brokers 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 present 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 slicing from $250 to $200 a month—get beta entry subsequent week.