At Google I/O 2026, Google launched Gemini Spark, a 24/7 private AI agent that may carry out multi-step, background duties, in keeping with an organization weblog put up (Might 19, 2026). The announcement arrived alongside mannequin updates: Gemini 3.5 Flash and the brand new Gemini Omni household, and weblog.google stories 900 million month-to-month Gemini customers. The Verge’s hands-on assessment discovered Spark “shockingly good” at finishing up multi-step duties however questioned whether or not its advantages justify potential price and privateness tradeoffs. CNBC stories Google stated Gemini 3.5 Flash gives frontier capabilities at roughly half, or in some instances one-third, the worth of comparable frontier fashions, and that the mannequin is “remarkably quick,” a phrase CNBC attributes to Sundar Pichai. Google’s weblog additionally says the Gemini MacOS app will combine Spark so it might probably function on an area machine.