Google is expanding its Gemini-based AI capabilities to its Workspace apps on Tuesday, March 10.
With Gemini, users can generate fully formatted documents, spreadsheets, and presentations by syncing data from Gmail, Chat, and Drive.
The new feature aims to improve user experience with Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive. This step moves simple chatbots to personalized AI assistants that understand individual context.
What’s new
The new features are:
Google Docs
In Google Docs, users can access the “Help me create” tool to describe what they want. Using a description, Gemini creates its first draft. Through synchronization between applications, AI can help unify the voices of multiple contributors and “match document format” to reflect the structure of another document.
Google Sheets
Google Sheets is receiving its biggest update yet. Users can now have Gemini create entire spreadsheets from scratch, such as moving to Chicago and having all the necessary utility company checklists and information on hand.
A “Fill with Gemini” feature allows users to automatically fill tables by pulling the latest information from Google search results when searching for things like college application deadlines.
Google Slides
On Google Slides, Gemini will help users create fully editable slides that match the theme of a presentation, pulling context from files, emails, and the web. Future updates will allow for the creation of a single prompt for full multi-slide presentations.
Google Drive
Google Drive goes from a storage tool to a collaborator. Natural language search results now contain “AI Previews” that provide information with citations. The “Ask Gemini in Drive” tool can answer complex questions in documents, email, calendar and the web.
The features are only available to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers at this time. Additionally, AI assistance is available globally for Docs, Sheets, and Slides and in the US for Drive.
