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

Google is currently conducting tests for Tabletop, a new experiment launched by Google Labs. This platform allows groups to collaborate and create planning tools with the assistance of an AI agent. In a blog post, Roman Nurik, the design and engineering lead at Google Labs, explained that coordinating a family trip or a potluck is more efficient when everyone can contribute from one place.

Users set up a space by adding links, files, and ideas, and then a request to "@tabletop" generates the desired tool. The available tools include itineraries, dinner polls, expense splitters, and tournament brackets, with starter templates for users to access. Once shared through an invite link within the group’s existing chat, multiple users can work on these tools simultaneously, similar to collaborating in a Google Doc.

In a demonstration, a guest at an office party was able to reorganize a seating chart by dragging name badges between tables. Any tool created can be modified in a similar manner. Google has not disclosed which of its models power Tabletop. Following Google’s release of Disco browser experiment last December, where Gemini 3 transformed open tabs into small web apps, Tabletop aligns with Google’s recent initiative to allow up to six household members to share the division’s CC agent.

OpenAI Group PBC previously introduced group chats to ChatGPT last year, enabling up to 20 people to converse in a single thread. The chatbot interacts within the conversation and has been taught to determine when to participate. Initially, replies in ChatGPT group chats were generated by GPT-5.1 Auto, which selects a model based on the prompt and the subscriber’s subscription.

OpenAI also ensured that personal memory was excluded from group chats. Tabletop is currently limited to U.S. users who are 18 years or older and must sign up through the waitlist at tabletop.google. Google has not disclosed pricing or a release outside the U.S. at this time.