Google's Gemini Spark agent reaches AI Pro users, and it can juggle 15 tasks at once
Gemini Spark, Google's personal AI agent, rolled out to US AI Pro subscribers on July 24. It runs jobs across Gmail, Docs, and other Workspace apps, up to fifteen at a time.
Google widened access to Gemini Spark, its personal AI agent, on July 24, opening it to Google AI Pro subscribers in the United States who pay $20 a month. Until now Spark had been limited to the pricier Ultra tier ($100 to $200 a month). An AI agent is different from a chatbot: instead of just answering, it takes actions on your behalf, clicking through apps and completing multi-step jobs while you do something else.
Spark is built into Google Workspace, so it can work across Gmail, Docs, Calendar, and the rest of the suite. Google says it can run up to 15 tasks at the same time. Two features do the heavy lifting. Skills are reusable sets of instructions you save once and call again (“draft my weekly update in this format,” for example). Schedules are automatic triggers that fire on a time or a condition, so a task can run every Monday morning without you asking. Under the hood, Spark is powered by Gemini 3.5.
What is behind this is a broader industry shift. For two years the big labs sold chatbots you talk to. Now they are selling agents that go and do, because that is where the real time savings are and, frankly, where subscriptions become easier to justify. Google is racing OpenAI and Anthropic here, and pushing the feature down from its top tier to the $20 plan is a clear move to get more people hooked before rivals do.
A few honest caveats. The rollout is US-only for now, though Google says international AI Pro access is coming, and Ultra users get a global rollout that excludes the European Economic Area, Switzerland, the UK, and Nigeria. And agents that act on their own are only as good as their judgment: it is worth watching what Spark does before you hand it anything sensitive. Letting software send emails or move files unsupervised is convenient right up until it does the wrong thing confidently.
What this means for you: If you pay for Google AI Pro in the US, check your Gemini app; Spark may already be there. Start small. Give it a low-stakes, repetitive chore (sorting an inbox, prepping a recurring doc) and watch how it handles the steps before trusting it with more. If you are just curious about AI, this is a useful preview of where the mainstream tools are heading: less typing questions into a box, more delegating small jobs. For most people, the safe approach is to treat an agent like a keen new assistant, helpful, fast, and still worth double-checking.
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