Who is building the agent operating system?
Twelve dimensions across seven providers. Re-graded as announcements land, with the market's reaction shown alongside.
Google · Agent Capability
Can it actually do work? · updated 2026-06-01
Project Mariner / Astra-class agents are real and improving, if less battle-tested than rivals.
Can the system take a goal and complete multi-step work autonomously (browse, write code, operate tools, recover from errors), not just answer questions? Measures shipped agentic behavior, not demos.
- AnalysisWith Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbotsTechCrunch · 2026-05-19
Google pivots from conversational chat toward autonomous, multi-hour agentic task execution.
- NewsGoogle introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integrationTechCrunch · 2026-05-19
A continuously-running cloud agent that uses existing Gmail/Workspace access to act on a user's behalf.
- NewsGoogle flips Antigravity into an agentic dev suite9to5Google · 2026-05-19
Antigravity 2.0's agent-first architecture for orchestrating multiple coding agents asynchronously.
- AnalysisA Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic EraOne Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick) · 2026-02-18
A models/apps/harnesses framework: the harness that lets a model take real actions now matters as much as IQ.
- AnalysisAI Engineering Goes MainstreamLatent Space · 2025-06-13
AI engineering matures into a vertical; agents, reasoning, and orchestration tooling are the practical frontier.
- PrimaryGemini as a universal AI assistant (Google I/O 2025)Google DeepMind · 2025-05-20
Google's intent to fold Project Astra and Mariner into Gemini as a 'universal assistant' that sees, acts, and remembers.