Google Launches Tabletop, an AI-Powered Collaborative Planning Workspace

Google LLC has started testing Tabletop, a Google Labs initiative that enables teams to occupy a common digital workspace where an artificial intelligence agent constructs the planning instruments they require. Roman Nurik, who leads design and engineering efforts at Google Labs, explained in a blog post that group endeavors—whether organizing a family getaway or hosting a potluck dinner—benefit significantly when all participants can contribute simultaneously from a single location. Once someone establishes the space and uploads relevant links, documents and ideas, the group can request that @tabletop generate the necessary tool.

The platform supports a variety of planning instruments, including travel itineraries, meal preference surveys, cost-sharing calculators and competition brackets. Tabletop also provides a collection of pre-built templates that users may adopt. After the workspace is distributed via an invite link through the group's messaging platform, participants can edit these tools simultaneously, functioning "like in a Google Doc," according to Nurik.

During one Google demonstration involving an office gathering, an attendee positioned next to an executive prompted @tabletop to transform a seating arrangement, allowing name tags to be repositioned between tables. The Tabletop website indicates that any generated tool can be modified using this same approach.

Google has not disclosed which of its AI models power Tabletop. When Google Labs unveiled its Disco browser experiment in December, it employed Gemini 3 to convert a user's browser tabs into compact web applications. Tabletop represents another step in Google's collaborative AI direction, following the company's September rollout permitting up to six household members to access the CC agent together. OpenAI Group PBC introduced group conversation capabilities to ChatGPT one year prior, and the platform now accommodates as many as 20 participants in a single thread.

Within ChatGPT's group chats, the assistant participates as an additional conversation member, and OpenAI indicated during the launch that it had trained the model to recognize appropriate moments to contribute. Initially, responses in these shared conversations came from GPT-5.1 Auto, which selects the appropriate model based on the user's input and subscription status. OpenAI deliberately excluded personal memory functionality from group chat interactions.

Currently, Tabletop remains accessible only to United States residents aged 18 and above who join through the waitlist at tabletop.google. Google indicated it plans to expand access incrementally on a weekly basis. The company's announcement contains no information regarding pricing or international availability.