• Google is reportedly developing a new agentic version of Gemini.
• The new Gemini is called Remy and will act as a 24/7 AI agent across daily life.
• Remy will run digital errands, monitor routines, and help use connected apps and services.

Google has plans for its Gemini AI models beyond the role of chatbot and into something far more involved, according to a Business Insider report. The company is building an always-on AI agent version of Gemini designed to complete tasks for users even across third-party services with minimal intervention from the user.

The AI agent project is called “Remy,” and internal documents say the goal is to create “a true assistant that can take actions on your behalf” in every part of a user's life. The point is not to engage in conversation with the AI as with the current Gemini, but to have it do things for you in the background.

Proactive Gemini

The agent will be “Your 24/7 digital partner,” able to communicate with others, send documents, make purchases, and proactively complete errands without waiting for instructions.

There have been hints that this is coming in recent months. Gemini's Personal Intelligence features let the AI come up with answers using content from Gmail and other Google services, including making AI images of the user based on what's been uploaded to Google Photos. Remy appears to turn that information, called "personal context," into action.

Rather than acting like a simple chat window, Remy's AI agents offer dedicated sections for ongoing tasks, scheduled actions, and jobs waiting for user input. Completed tasks can be pinned, renamed, and reopened later. Ultimately, this would make the AI agents something to continually engage with, not just when you feel up to having a conversation with an AI chatbot.

Convenience with surveillance

If you're wondering how much information Google's AI will be processing to do all this, the warnings attached to the agent are full of language explaining it's experimental and could “make mistakes and expose data unintentionally.” Users are advised not to rely on it for professional tasks.

Users will reportedly be able to manage or delete that information through settings, as well as disable connected apps and certain personalization features. But an AI that can genuinely organize parts of your life cannot operate in isolation. It has to know where you go, what you search for, who you talk to, what you buy, and how you spend your time. For some people, that level of integration will sound useful. For others, it edges uncomfortably close to the idea of outsourcing free will to software.

But Google has plenty of rivals pushing their own AI capable of operating browsers and apps with minimal human oversight. But a lot of people have already filled Google's ecosystem with information. So an agent would weave in perfectly into services they may already depend on every day.

The AI industry is moving away from systems that simply respond and toward ones that act continuously. Google appears determined to make Gemini one of the first major examples of that transition.

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Eric Hal Schwartz is a freelance writer for TechRadar with more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of the world and technology. For the last five years, he served as head writer for Voicebot.ai and was on the leading edge of reporting on generative AI and large language models. He's since become an expert on the products of generative AI models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, and every other synthetic media tool. His experience runs the gamut of media, including print, digital, broadcast, and live events. Now, he's continuing to tell the stories people want and need to hear about the rapidly evolving AI space and its impact on their lives. Eric is based in New York City.