Google expands its Gemini-powered 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 focuses on improving the user experience with Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. This step moves simple chatbots into 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. With the help of a description, Gemini creates his first draft. With synchronization between applications, AI can help unify the voices of multiple contributors and “Match document formatting” to reflect the structure of another document.
Google Sheets
Google Sheets receives its biggest update yet. Now users can ask Gemini to create entire spreadsheets from scratch, like moving to Chicago and having all the necessary checklists and utility company information at their fingertips.
A “Fill with Gemini” feature allows users to automatically populate tables by pulling the latest information from Google Search results when researching things like college application deadlines.
Google Slides
In Google Slides, Gemini will help users create fully editable slides that match a platform’s theme, pulling context from files, emails, and the web. Future updates will allow complete multi-slide presentations to be created in a single message.
Google Drive
Google Drive goes from being a storage tool to being a collaborator. Natural language search results now have “AI Overviews” that provide information with citations. The Ask Gemini in Drive tool can answer complex questions in documents, emails, calendars, and the Internet.
The features are available only to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers for now. Additionally, AI support is available globally for Docs, Sheets, and Slides and in the US for Drive.
