Google Cloud launches Gemini agent for work across Workspace, M365 and Slack

Google has not published a price for the Gemini agent. The company says it will see wide availability soon for Workspace customers on select Business and Enterprise plans, and it is currently in private preview. An API will let businesses integrate it into their own applications as a headless agent that needs no dedicated user interface.

VentureBeat reported the story first, and Techmeme aggregated coverage from multiple outlets, underlining how much enterprise attention the launch is drawing. The clear target is the productivity layer where Microsoft, Slack owner Salesforce and Google already compete for daily corporate work.

In a separate but related announcement, Google said its SynthID AI content detector is moving from limited early access to a global public tool, starting in English. SynthID places invisible watermarks at the generation stage and then detects them in images, videos and audio, supporting JPG, PNG, MP4 and MP3 files.

Google says more than 180 billion images and videos already carry SynthID watermarks, according to The Decoder. Detection is also built into Google Search, the Gemini app and Chrome, where Google claims one million verification requests arrive every day. The tool works with content from Gemini, Veo and Lyria, and from partners including OpenAI, Nvidia, Kakao and soon Apple, whose Apple Intelligence models will carry SynthID watermarks "soon."

Both Google and The Decoder stress the same limitation: SynthID is not a universal AI detector. It only flags content that carries a SynthID watermark in the first place, so untagged AI media can still pass unnoticed.

For Tunisian businesses, the Gemini agent is mainly a question of licensing and availability. Google has not announced Tunisian pricing or a local launch date, and access depends on Workspace Business and Enterprise plans that most small Tunisian companies do not use. Teams already on those plans, or on Microsoft 365 and Slack, will be able to try a single agent across all their tools once the wider rollout begins.

SynthID is easier to use today because it is free and public: any reader can upload an image or video to check whether it carries a Google or partner watermark. It will not catch every AI-generated file, but it is one more verification step for journalists, recruiters and anyone receiving suspicious media on social networks.