Opening a new Google Doc or checking your Gmail inbox? You can see a new sidebar with AI that can start typing for you.

Google announced On Monday, these Gemini AI-powered features equivalent to ChatGPT will begin appearing within products central to its brand, including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive, for paying users.

For Gmail, Gemini can parse a chain of emails back and forth and quickly summarize them in a few sentences. It also gives users an idea of ​​how to respond to emails by suggesting replies and writing email drafts directly.

Gemini offers more specific ways that Gmail users can interact with it, based on their inbox. For example, AI can suggest “Summarize conversations about the next family trip” as a personalized suggestion.

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Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive use Gemini in similar ways — to summarize information, think about what to say, and create new content.

Gemini can be especially helpful in Drive if users want to find information across different sheets or documents without clicking through multiple files.

It also makes Sheets easier to understand: a written request asking Gemini for help tracking income and expenses now has the ability to transform a Google Sheet into a professional-looking budget tracker.

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The new AI features use Google's latest, most capable AI models – including its own Gemini 1.5 Pros model, which can take in more context and process longer requests.

Google Workplace customers with the Google One AI Premium plan or the Gemini Business, Enterprise, or Education add-ons will start seeing the Gemini sidebar in the coming weeks.

Although Google is continuing with AI for its core work and communication tools, it may have scaled back its AI efforts in its search engine after receiving feedback on its feature. incorrect answers.

A study last week by the SEO SE Ranking platform FOUND that the percentage of AI summaries that Google shows to the public has dropped by 52%.

Google has become “more selective when generating AI content than before,” the researchers found.

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