Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households

谷歌推出全新 AI 智能体“CC”，助力家庭日常事务管理

Google is testing a new product designed to help families coordinate with the support of an AI agent. This week, the search giant introduced a new version of CC, an AI agent designed to work across email, calendar, chats, and tasks. With the update, CC now focuses on keeping families organized, planning for the day ahead, and even handling family-specific tasks, like signing permission slips, creating shopping lists, or crafting weekly meal plans.

谷歌正在测试一款旨在通过 AI 智能体协助家庭进行协作的新产品。本周，这家搜索巨头推出了新版“CC”，这是一个旨在跨电子邮件、日历、聊天和任务进行工作的 AI 智能体。通过此次更新，CC 的重心转向了帮助家庭保持井然有序、规划每日行程，甚至处理家庭特定任务，例如签署许可单、创建购物清单或制定每周膳食计划。

The move to make CC more family-focused comes as a number of AI startups are experimenting with how to best fit agentic AI into consumers’ lives. Some AI tools, like Ollie and Fambot, for instance, have aimed their services directly at helping parents and families. Google’s CC, meanwhile, began its life as a productivity agent that connected to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and the wider web to understand your day, then deliver a “Your Day Ahead” briefing to your inbox.

谷歌将 CC 的重心转向家庭，正值多家 AI 初创公司探索如何将智能体 AI 更好地融入消费者生活之际。例如，Ollie 和 Fambot 等一些 AI 工具已将服务目标直接对准了家长和家庭。与此同时，谷歌的 CC 最初是一个生产力智能体，它连接 Gmail、Google 日历、Google 云端硬盘和更广泛的网络来了解你的日程，然后向你的收件箱发送“明日行程”简报。

In May, the tool came to the Gemini app as “Daily Brief.” Google said user requests showed that people wanted to use the feature more for household management tasks. They wanted AI to help them keep up with kids’ school schedules, sports practices, bills, meal plans, and more. As a result, Google shifted CC to become an agent for families that helps run their households.

今年 5 月，该工具以“每日简报”（Daily Brief）的形式登陆 Gemini 应用。谷歌表示，用户需求显示，人们更希望将此功能用于家庭管理任务。他们希望 AI 能帮助他们跟进孩子的学校日程、体育训练、账单、膳食计划等。因此，谷歌将 CC 转型为家庭智能体，协助管理家庭日常事务。

Now, CC is getting its own Google account, so it can collaborate with family members on tasks, while also maintaining its own specific set of permissions for accessing data. Google explains that each family member chooses what they want to share — like emails about school events, sports, clubs, birthday party invites, doctor appointments, or anything else. These can be forwarded to CC via its email address, or shared automatically.

现在，CC 拥有了专属的谷歌账号，因此它可以与家庭成员协作处理任务，同时保持其自身特定的数据访问权限。谷歌解释称，每位家庭成员都可以选择想要分享的内容，例如关于学校活动、体育运动、俱乐部、生日派对邀请、医生预约或其他任何事项的电子邮件。这些内容可以通过 CC 的电子邮件地址转发给它，也可以自动共享。

To automate sharing, users can pick the email senders whose messages they always want to share with CC going forward, like schools, travel companies, clubs, or sports teams. (CC will also suggest email senders to add on a weekly basis.)

为了实现自动共享，用户可以选择希望持续与 CC 分享邮件的发件人，例如学校、旅游公司、俱乐部或运动队。（CC 还会每周建议可添加的邮件发件人。）

The company says CC currently supports up to six family members who can share information and collaborate with the agent. Beyond email, CC can also coordinate household activities by tracking important dates and to-dos, and then automatically adding them to the calendar or a shared task list. That means, for instance, every time the orthodontist sends an email confirmation of your next appointment or the school announces a teacher workday, CC can put it on the shared calendar.

谷歌表示，CC 目前支持最多六名家庭成员共享信息并与该智能体协作。除了电子邮件，CC 还可以通过跟踪重要日期和待办事项来协调家庭活动，并自动将其添加到日历或共享任务列表中。这意味着，例如每当牙医发送下一次预约的确认邮件，或者学校宣布教师工作日时，CC 都能将其自动同步到共享日历中。

What’s more, the agent can manage select tasks on a family’s behalf, like filling out permission slips or activity registration PDFs, making school supply shopping lists, planning weekly meals, figuring out drive times between activities, creating shared Docs or Sheets, and more. It will even ask for missing details, as needed, and update its group memory so it can be more helpful going forward.

此外，该智能体还可以代表家庭管理特定任务，例如填写许可单或活动注册 PDF、制作学校用品购物清单、规划每周膳食、计算活动间的车程时间、创建共享文档或表格等。它甚至会在需要时询问缺失的细节，并更新其群组记忆，以便在未来提供更有帮助的服务。

Google notes that CC runs on its own isolated cloud computer, powered by Gemini and Google’s agentic harness, Antigravity. The experiment is only available for U.S. users with a personal Gmail account, who are ages 18 and up. That’s a big drawback for the time being because it means older kids, like tweens and teens, can’t use the service unless they lie about their age on their Google accounts.

谷歌指出，CC 在其独立的云计算机上运行，由 Gemini 和谷歌的智能体框架 Antigravity 提供支持。该实验目前仅面向 18 岁及以上、拥有个人 Gmail 账号的美国用户开放。这在目前是一个很大的局限，因为这意味着大龄儿童（如青春期少年）无法使用该服务，除非他们在谷歌账号中虚报年龄。

It also means they can’t use it with their school-provided emails, despite the fact that many attend schools that run everything on Chromebooks and Google apps and have inboxes filled with school-related updates. CC could help larger households, where parents have to coordinate with each other and with other adults, like grandparents, caregivers, nannies, or adult children still living at home, which tends to be more common these days.

这也意味着他们无法使用学校提供的邮箱，尽管许多学生所在的学校完全依赖 Chromebook 和谷歌应用，且收件箱中充斥着与学校相关的更新。CC 可以帮助大家庭，让父母能够与彼此以及其他成年人（如祖父母、看护人、保姆或仍住在家中的成年子女）进行协调，这种情况在当今社会更为普遍。

Existing CC users will be invited via email in the coming days to upgrade their accounts, Google says, while new users can join a waitlist to access the AI agent.

谷歌表示，现有的 CC 用户将在未来几天收到电子邮件邀请以升级账号，而新用户可以加入候补名单以获取该 AI 智能体的访问权限。