Overview
- Spark began a limited beta rollout to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the United States on Monday, June 1, and is available only in English behind a $99.99-per-month tier.
- The agent functions around three core controls—Tasks, Schedules, and Skills—so users can assign reusable instructions that run automatically and across apps.
- Spark can access Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and web pages via a remote browser and remote compute environment to draft emails, pull spreadsheet data, update files, and manage appointments.
- Google caps concurrent activity at about 15 active Spark tasks with extra requests queued, provides a dashboard to monitor work, and lets users manually take over running tasks.
- Hands-on tests show Spark often completes complex personal workflows quickly but makes mistakes, requires user oversight, and raises privacy and data-use concerns while fitting into Google’s cloud-first, subscription-driven Gemini strategy.