Sundar Pichai walked onto the Shoreline Amphitheatre stage on 19 May and told the crowd that the era of chatbots is over. He did not talk about faster search results but spoke of a future where machines act on behalf of many humans.
Instead, he declared the start of a world filled with active digital workers that do not wait for a single prompt. They call this the Agentic Gemini Era.
It marks a sharp turn from the passive tools we used for the last three years to find basic facts or news. For too long, we have typed prompts into boxes and waited for simple answers to appear on our small phone screens.
But the search giant says that cycle is finally over as they move toward a more active and helpful future. Now, they want to solve multi-step problems without your help by using a massive cloud of active processing power.
Pichai noted that users already process 3.2 quadrillion tokens every single month across the entire Google network of various apps. This scale allows for a new tool called Gemini Spark which runs on cloud machines while your primary phone stays off.
It handles your personal schedule and talks to other apps while you sleep in order to save you precious time. It is not a toy.
It is a digital worker. And developers get a new system to help them build apps without having to write every single line of code.
This tool is called Antigravity 2.0 and it manages sub-agents to build software without any human eyes watching the process. It does not just write small code snippets for a website but builds whole systems in the dark of the night.
Yet this shift brings new risks for the tech world because these agents need massive power to stay awake and alert. Google is using its eighth-generation TPUs to keep them running and support millions of active workers at the same time.
So, the race is on. Google is no longer just a library. It wants to be your staff.
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