- Workspace Intelligence connects with your Google ecosystem and third parties
- The entire Gemini experience feels more cohesive across the board.
- Google is still trying to convince you to abandon M365
Google Cloud has shared details of the new Workspace Intelligence layer that serves to combine organizational context with artificial intelligence.
For the end user (in this case, enterprise customers), it means that the Gemini experience feels much more cohesive across the platform, going beyond generic AI to unlock real company data, such as documents, emails and meetings, as well as organizational knowledge.
With the huge contextual boost, it brings Gemini closer to being an agent assistant that can perform actions across multiple applications.
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Workspace Intelligence is the layer Gemini always needed
Speaking at Google Cloud Next 2026, VP of Product Yulie Kwon Kim said it now allows users to create reports and forecasts, write presentations from multiple data sources, and execute multi-step, multi-application workflows.
Its basic principle is to automate the process of searching for relevant emails, files and web information to tie together applications and workflows, but there is also an ever-learning element of personalization that understands how each worker designs and formats content.
Ultimately, it allows users to interact with Gemini in exactly the same way wherever they are, whether within a specific Workspace app or in Google Chat, and the same context across the organization and Google Workspace remains accessible.
Importantly, it also includes third-party connectors for external data sources, greatly enhancing the power of Gemini beyond the Google environment. Early partners include HubSpot, Salesforce, Asana, and Jira.
To match the new intelligence layer, AI Overviews and Ask Gemini are now generally available to help users interact and summarize multiple documents and projects with simplicity.
At the same time, the company is also announcing updates to its migration service that is now up to five times faster for companies moving from Microsoft 365. Yulie positioned this as the perfect and easy way for companies to test new Workspace AI features.
Workspace Intelligence is now rolling out to eligible users on certain paid commercial plans; More detailed details can be found on the company’s website.
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