Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
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Gemini Spark is now a macOS desktop agent in beta, but only for U.S. Google AI Ultra subscribers, and it can already read/use local Mac files to organize them or generate Google Workspace docs and spreadsheets. For teams shipping agent workflows, this makes Google’s stack a more direct Claude Desktop/Copilot competitor, with the key implication that desktop file permissions, Workspace data access, and upcoming MCP/app connectors need to be treated as production security and governance surfaces rather than chat-only integrations.
Gemini Spark now supports custom MCP servers on macOS, meaning you can wire your own tools and apps directly into Google's desktop agent alongside its native file access and new first-party integrations (Keep, Tasks, Canva, Dropbox, Instacart). Practically, this puts Spark in the same MCP-based tooling ecosystem as Claude Desktop, so your existing MCP integrations become portable across agents—but it's gated behind AI Ultra, US-only beta, with remote/multi-step task orchestration still not shipped.