Google Labs begins testing Tabletop, letting users collaborate with AI agents to build planning tools

On November 12, 2026, Google Labs introduced Tabletop, a new experiment for group collaboration, through a post on the Google AI Blog. Roman Nurik, design and engineering lead at Google Labs, presented the project as a way to coordinate family trips, rec leagues, and potlucks by bringing everyone into one shared space. Users can add links, files, and ideas, then prompt @tabletop or pick a starter template to generate interactive trip itineraries, dinner polls, expense splitters, and tournament brackets. Access is opened through a waitlist for users in the United States.

Later the same day, outlets including The Verge and The Next Web covered the launch with additional detail on how the product works. According to these reports, Tabletop shares some visual similarities with workplace management apps such as Asana and Monday, but adds built-in AI that lets people build personalized interactive tools by describing what they need in natural language. Group members receive an invite link and can edit the same space together at the same time, in a manner compared to Google Docs. The Next Web and DEV Community both noted that the waitlist is open to US adults and that the rollout is progressing gradually within the United States. SiliconANGLE, also reporting on November 12, framed the feature around the AI agent: teams share an online space and ask an artificial intelligence agent to build the planning tools they need. At present, Tabletop remains an experiment available only to users who join the waitlist, and it has not yet opened to all.