Google has added Gemini AI to Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides, with a new side panel where users can request tasks like summarizing, analyzing, and generating content using information collected from emails and messages. documents, without changing applications or tabs.
The technology giant continues to implement AI tools in its services, in this case driven by the company’s most powerful models, including the Gemini 1.5 Pro model, which was presented last May and which offers a longer contextual window and a more advanced reasoning.
In this framework, Google has announced the availability of Gemini in its Gmail, Drive, Documents, Sheets and Presentations servicesallowing users to take advantage of AI capabilities directly from the most used Google Workspace applications to streamline their workloads.
Thus, as the company explained in a statement on its updates blog, these AI functions will appear in a new side panel that will be displayed on the right side of the screen and that will open when you press the star-shaped button ‘Ask Gemini’. From this panel, users will be able to manage the different tools, either in a Google Docs document or in Gmail.
For example, through the side panel in Gmail, users will be able to use AI to summarize a thread of emails, receive suggestions for writing responses or new emails, and ask questions to find specific information among messages in the inbox. .
Gemini AI Thread and Email Summarization Feature Available both in the web version of the platform, like in the app for Android and iOS. Likewise, the rest of the AI tools, such as contextual smart response and Gmail questions and answers, are already available for the web version, and will be implemented “soon” for the mobile application.
In the case of Documents, Gemini has capabilities to help write content, summarize information and generate new ideas. Likewise, it allows you to create content based on other files in the service.
The same goes for Slides, where Gemini can help the user create new slides and even generate custom images to include in presentations. Likewise, you can also summarize the content of the document.
Gemini AI also has specific functions for Spreadsheets, with options to organize data or keep track of the information. It also allows you to easily create tables, generate formulas or provide information on how to perform certain tasks.
Finally, Gemini in Drive can carry out summaries of one or several documents at the same time, obtain brief data from among the different saved files or delve deeper into a topic without having to search through the stored information.
With all this, Google has stressed that Gemini capabilities in Google Workspace services have already begun to be implemented for all users, although will be added gradually. However, it is worth keeping in mind that these AI functions have been implemented for users who also have a Gemini subscription. That is, you must have Google Workspace along with Gemini Business or Enterprise, Gemini Education or Education Premium, or be a Google One AI Premium subscriber.
