Google tests Tabletop, where groups build planning tools with an AI agent

Roman Nurik, design and engineering lead at Google Labs, says a shared space lets everyone in a group add links, files and ideas, then send a request to @tabletop to produce a tool. Google lists itineraries, dinner polls, expense splitters and tournament brackets among the tools, and starter templates are also available. Once the space is shared through an invite link posted in the group's chat, members can work on the same tools at once.

Google demonstrated an office party seating chart that a request turned into a layout with draggable name badges. According to the Tabletop site, any tool can be reworked the same way. Google did not say which of its models run Tabletop, though it previously used Gemini 3 in its Disco browser experiment.

SiliconANGLE points out that OpenAI added group chats to ChatGPT a year ago, letting up to 20 people talk to the chatbot in one thread. Google's announcement does not mention pricing or a release outside the U.S.

Tabletop is an example of an agent that builds small shared apps from a group's collected material rather than answering one person's prompt. Multi-person editing and requests from several members raise questions about whose instructions an agent should follow and what it should see. The announcement gives no pricing or non-U.S. timeline, so teams should treat it as an early consumer experiment for now.