Google is believed to be working on an AI agent tool capable of autonomously navigating the web to complete tasks for users, according to reports.
Google is believed to be working on an AI agent tool capable of autonomously navigating the web to complete tasks for users, according to reports.
Dubbed ‘Project Jarvis’, the AI-powered tool is reportedly able to act autonomously across a variety of functions, including email management, conducting research, and scheduling appointments.
Reporting from The Information last month said sources believed Project Jarvis would be demonstrated as early as December, ahead of public release with the next major update to its large language model (LLM), Gemini.
AI agents, also referred to as agentic AI, are predicted to be the next big trend in generative AI, allowing companies to put large language models to use automating actual tasks in the workplace, rather than remaining limited to text generation, data sifting, or coding tools.
Google’s not the only big tech player building such agents. Microsoft has shown off agents that can reply to emails or automate customer requests, with similar efforts in the pipeline from OpenAI, Anthropic, and startups.
Google Cloud unveiled its Vertex AI agents earlier this year, using Gemini to help companies automate tasks such as answering employee questions about benefits or summarizing information about a security breach.
Salesforce, meanwhile, unveiled its Agentforce autonomous AI system in September, with CEO Marc Benioff hailing agents as the next evolutionary in the AI area and insisting customers had been “oversold” on the potential of AI.
