Google Labs’ Tabletop lets groups build trip plans and polls together

Google Labs introduced Tabletop on November 11, an experiment that lets groups make planning tools together. People can bring links and files into a shared space and ask AI to build an itinerary, a dinner poll or a tool that splits a trip’s expenses. Google opened a waitlist for U.S. users aged 18 and over.

A person who sets up a space can send an invitation link in the group’s existing chat. Once members join, they can use the same tool at the same time. For a trip, that means the group can keep its destination research and the itinerary it is working on in the same place, with everyone referring to one version as the plans change.

A poll people can use from the shared space

Tabletop’s help page describes a space with a conversation, tabs that hold interactive tools, and a place for shared material. Members can ask the assistant in chat to summarize a discussion or make a tab. The result is a tool the group can use, such as a poll where members cast votes or a checklist they can update, with the links and files that informed it still in the same space.

Google also shows tools for splitting costs or arranging a tournament bracket. A group planning a trip can have an itinerary and an expense tool alongside each other. The service offers templates as a starting point as well. One trip example puts dinner spots and roadside stops on a wheel the group can spin. It illustrates how a group can take suggestions from its conversation and leave something its members can use in the shared space.

The chat also supports voice notes and separate threads for individual topics. A discussion about options can continue while the resulting poll stays in its own tab.

Changing a tool after a plan changes

One example on Google’s product page starts with a seating chart for an event. A participant asks Tabletop to make the chart interactive. The example shows a new seating tab where people can move name cards between tables. Separately, the help page says a group can change an existing tool by asking the assistant again or using the tab’s edit option. Users can also edit the code directly.

Google Labs has experimented with making small web apps from a person’s browsing activity before. GenTabs, part of its Disco browser experiment, uses open browser tabs and chat history. With Tabletop, the group brings its own material into a shared space and can use the tools there together. Google identified Gemini 3 as the model behind GenTabs. Its November 11 announcement gave no model name for Tabletop.

Invitations and memory are managed by space

The help page says a newly created space starts out visible only to its creator. Administrators can change how people are invited. Members can also create a tab or a conversation thread visible to a smaller group. An event’s general plan could be available to everyone in the space while a few members use a separate thread to settle a detail.

The assistant’s memory is scoped to each space, and members can review, change or clear it there. Leaving cuts off access to that space. Messages and uploads a person has left behind stay available to the remaining members. Google says the space and its contents are deleted when its last member leaves.

An administrator can remove a member’s access immediately or delete the entire space. The help page directs people who want a copy of their space data to contact Google for a manual export.

Google’s product page describes an invitation-only test and says it will open more places each week. The initial waitlist is for U.S. adults. Google gave no date for access outside the United States or price for the service.