Google is reportedly building what could be its most ambitious AI product to date.
An internal document obtained by Business Insider reveals that employees are testing an AI agent codenamed “Remy” – a tool designed not just to answer questions, but to take actions on your behalf across work, school, and everyday life.
“Remy is your 24/7 personal agent for work, school, and daily life, powered by Gemini,” reads the internal description. “It elevates the Gemini app into a true assistant that can take actions on your behalf – not just answer questions or generate content.”
Beyond Q&A: What Makes Remy Different
Remy reportedly runs inside a staff-only version of the Gemini app, integrated with a range of Google’s own services.
According to two people familiar with the project, it can monitor for things users care about, handle complex tasks proactively, and learn preferences over time – moving well beyond the conversational AI model most users are familiar with today.
That’s a meaningful step up from Google’s existing “Agent Mode” features, which already allow Gemini to handle multi-step tasks but remain limited in scope and subscription tier. Remy appears designed to be something more foundational – a persistent, always-on layer sitting across Google’s ecosystem.
The project is currently at the “dogfooding” stage, the industry term for internal employee testing before a product reaches users.
Whether it makes it to Google I/O later this month remains to be seen, but the annual developer conference is widely expected to put agents front and centre.
The Race Nobody Can Afford to Lose
Remy’s emergence is no coincidence. The AI industry is in the middle of a full sprint toward autonomous agents – software that doesn’t just respond to prompts, but independently plans and executes tasks on users’ behalf.
OpenAI has been especially aggressive here.
Earlier this year, an AI agent widely known in tech circles went viral for its ability to respond to messages and conduct research autonomously – its creator was subsequently hired by Sam Altman’s company.
Microsoft, meanwhile, unveiled Copilot Cowork in April, pitching it as a “digital employee” capable of planning tasks and automating workflows. Anthropic has similarly shifted resources toward agentic tooling.
Google is acutely aware of the stakes. CEO Sundar Pichai has positioned agents as the lynchpin of the company’s AI monetisation strategy, and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has argued that Google’s enterprise agent infrastructure offers capabilities “that nobody else offers.”
At Google Cloud Next in April, the company rebranded Vertex AI as the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform – a signal of how central agent-building has become to its cloud business.
But on the consumer side, Google has arguably lagged.
While it has steadily expanded Gemini’s capabilities, it hasn’t yet launched a fully autonomous personal agent product to the public. Remy looks like its answer to that gap.
Why This Matters for the Enterprise
For businesses and IT leaders, the agent race has direct implications.
Autonomous AI agents aren’t just a consumer novelty – they’re rapidly becoming an enterprise proposition.
Gartner forecasts that 40 percent of enterprise applications will incorporate task agents by 2026, up from under five percent in 2025. The question for organisations isn’t whether to engage with agentic AI, but which platforms to build on and how to govern them safely.
Google’s pitch is that its vertically integrated stack – from its own chips and models to its productivity suite and cloud infrastructure – gives it a unique advantage in deploying agents that are deeply embedded in how people already work. If Remy eventually surfaces as a public product, it would sit at the intersection of Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Search, and everything else in the Google ecosystem.
That kind of deep integration is both the opportunity and the concern. As agents gain the ability to act – not just advise – questions around oversight, accountability, and data access become urgent ones for CIOs and IT teams to get ahead of.
What Comes Next
For now, Remy remains an internal experiment. Google I/O, scheduled for later this month, is the next logical moment for Google to show its hand publicly on agents – though whether Remy itself will be formally unveiled is unknown.
What is clear is that the era of AI as a passive question-answering tool is drawing to a close. The real contest now is over who gets to be the agent acting on your behalf – and Google, with Remy, appears very much in the running.
UC Today has approached Goggle for comment
