In a recent interview, Google CEO Sundar Pichai described Google’s plans to develop a deeper integration of AI agents into Search, saying that he envisions the near future as an agentic layer that unifies those experiences rather than actually merging each product.

Google’s Vision Of The Near Future

The interviewer, Alex Heath, invoked Google Spark, a product introduced at Google I/O. Google Spark is a cloud-based personal agent that is tightly integrated with Search, using information agents in Search to conduct web research. Spark also integrates Search and Chrome together.

Heath asked:

“I’m curious what you make of this personal agent race that the industry is now in with Muse, which is a great product… I remember at the last IO, you guys showed Gemini Spark and I’m curious, do you think Google needs to do more here?

On consumer, I know you just had the Gemini workspace where you’re giving an agent an e-mail, a workspace identity, all that.…