Your AI Shouldn’t Need a Prompt for Every Task: Gemini Enterprise and Antigravity 2.0

Most organizations met generative AI in a side panel: summarize this document, draft that reply. It is useful, but a person still has to start every task. In Session 11 of the AI Learning Academy, Wursta cleared up what has changed inside Gemini Enterprise and then demonstrated Google Antigravity 2.0 doing real work live: auditing Google Drive, assembling status reports, and completing a timesheet in a system that has no API.

From AI that helps you to agents that work for you

We opened with a familiar scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: a homemade contraption of pulleys, a tape recorder and a dummy that handles several jobs at once while its builder is elsewhere. That is close to how knowledge work runs today. People move between mail, documents, spreadsheets and third-party applications to finish one process. The shift we presented is from AI that waits for a prompt to agents that carry a goal through several steps on their own, inside limits the organization sets.

What the audience told us

Attendees included IT directors, system administrators, technology vice presidents and operations leaders. We ran three live polls during the session, and the answers shaped the rest of the agenda.

The pattern is clear. The main obstacles are control and cost rather than capability: security, governance and budget predictability accounted for most answers to the first poll. What teams want most is the ability to build multi-step workflows without writing code. On readiness, the sample was small, but no respondent was prepared to hand over autonomy without conditions. Every answer asked for guardrails or proof first.

Gemini for Workspace: four updates worth knowing

Before turning to Gemini Enterprise, we reviewed recent Gemini for Workspace changes that apply to every Workspace customer. All four are documented on the Google Workspace Updates blog.

Clearing the fog: what’s new in Gemini Enterprise

Organizations that last evaluated Gemini Enterprise a few months ago will find a different product. The interface and the agent tooling have both changed, and we walked through the changes live.

How Gemini Enterprise is priced

What Antigravity 2.0 is, and what it can reach

The Antigravity name is also attached to Google’s coding tools. Antigravity 2.0 is different: a desktop application for macOS, Windows and Linux, built for office work, with agents that carry out multi-step tasks such as weekly status reports or turning a spreadsheet into a deck. Work can run on a schedule, so drafts are waiting when the user arrives. Because it runs on the user’s machine rather than in the cloud, scheduled work only runs while that machine is on.

Governance: high autonomy, central control

With security and governance at the top of the first poll, this was the part of the session that drew the most attention. An agent that can operate a computer and drive a browser raises a fair question about misuse. Administrators get visibility into how Antigravity is used and what it costs through the Admin console and Google Cloud console, along with these controls:

Later in the session we showed these controls in a live console: browser-access settings, budgets in the Google Cloud billing console (billing-viewer access is required), the approved-model list, and usage and spend metrics broken down by person and by project.

Live demo: Antigravity at work

Rather than a staged scenario, Wursta’s principal AI architect walked through the agents he runs every day in his own role. Each one started as a plain-language goal.

Inside the timesheet automation

The timesheet demo addressed the problem many attendees raised: important systems that have no modern API and would otherwise require a costly custom integration. The agent works through the same screens a person would.

We also explained why running on a laptop matters. Cloud agents are built for efficiency: they start with a small, locked-down set of tools, complete one job and shut down. A desktop agent can use whatever tools the organization allows. In our demo, a Chromebook ran about 20 agents at once, and the same setup can diagnose a slow Wi-If connection or a meeting-audio problem from the system logs and explain the fix in plain language.

Six workflows to start with

For teams deciding where Antigravity fits, we recommended starting with recurring work that consumes hours every week and already follows a pattern.

How to get started

Organization-wide use with central governance requires a Gemini Enterprise Standard or Plus seat. Individuals who want to explore first have a lower-cost path:

• Antigravity 2.0, the desktop app shown in the session, is a free download and can be explored with a personal Gmail account.
• Antigravity CLI is similarly capable and better suited to developers and engineers.
• Antigravity IDE is not yet integrated into the wider ecosystem, so we recommend holding off on it for now.

How Wursta helps

The Wursta AI Learning Academy runs live on the third Wednesday of every month. To suggest a topic, contact your Wursta account manager. Session 10, on Workspace Studio, is available on demand.