Google Tabletop: Google Labs AI builds shared group planning spaces

Google announced on November 11, 2026, Google Tabletop, a new Google Labs experiment built for real-time collaboration between groups. It aims to solve a familiar problem: planning a family trip, running an amateur league or arranging a group dinner without the conversation getting lost in the chat.

How Google Tabletop works

To use it, just gather links, files and ideas in a shared space and prompt @tabletop — or pick a starter template. The AI then generates custom interactive tools, such as trip itineraries, dinner polls, expense splitters and tournament brackets. Then share the invite link in the group chat: everyone joins and uses the space at the same time, like in a Google Doc.

Google Tabletop availability

The launch is limited. Tabletop is rolling out only in the United States, for users aged 18 and over, through a waitlist at labs.google/tabletop, with new spots opening every week. Google has not announced pricing or a date for other countries, and it has not said which AI model powers the tool.

The announcement was made by Roman Nurik, design and engineering lead at Google Labs. Like every Labs experiment, Tabletop may change features — or never become a finished product. Even so, it marks another step in Google's bet on collaborative AI: instead of an assistant that answers one person, an AI that builds tools for a whole group to use together.

Google Tabletop follows another Google Labs move: in September, the division began letting up to six members of a household share its CC agent, according to SiliconANGLE. The collaborative AI bet also shows in Gemini 4 Carbon, now available to Ultra subscribers and developers.

Image credit: Google — Tabletop promotional image published on Google's official blog.

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By Muse