Gemini in Gmail
reads your mail and writes emails for you
Works on the contents of your mailbox from a plain-language request. Google lists: “Synthesize long email threads into concise bullet points.”, “Create new emails or refine existing drafts for tone and clarity.”, “Find specific details, like flight times or package tracking.”, “Propose meeting times based on your availability in Google Calendar.” and “Ask Gemini to do things like delete multiple emails or add labels.” For those inbox actions Google says “Your emails are never deleted, archived, labeled, or marked read or unread until you explicitly confirm to Gemini that you want to process the action.”
Take notes for me
writes up the meeting for you in Google Meet
Listens to a Google Meet call and writes the notes. Google: “In Google Meet, you can use AI to run efficient and productive meetings.” It can “Automatically capture meeting notes organized in Google Docs and share with your team.” and, Google: “As the organizer, receive an email with a link to the recap shortly after the meeting ends.” Someone joining late can catch up on what has been said so far. It handles one language at a time. It can also be turned on from the Google Meet device in a meeting room.
Smart Compose
in Gmail: suggests how to finish your sentence as you write an email
Suggests how to finish a sentence as you write an email. Google: “With Smart Compose, powered by machine learning, you can write emails faster.” Google: “Smart Compose is not designed to provide answers and may not always predict factually correct information.” It is on by default, and Gmail tailors the suggestions to how each person writes.
Gemini in Google Calendar
finds a time to meet that suits everyone invited
Looks across the calendars of the people invited and proposes times. Google: “To save you time, you can use Gemini in Google Calendar to search for everyone's availability and suggest times to meet that work best for everyone.” It appears as Suggested times when an event is created or rescheduled. Google notes it will not suggest times for events longer than eight hours, or with too many attendees.
Gemini in the side panel
of Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms and Drawings, and the AI in Vids — one switch covers all seven
Drafts, rewrites, analyses and generates inside the documents you work in, using your other files as material. Google: “With the side panel, Gemini can assist you with summarizing, analyzing, and generating content by utilizing insights gathered from your emails, documents, and more—all without switching applications or tabs.” Google: “In Google Docs and Gmail, you can use Google Workspace with Gemini to help write and refine documents and emails.” Google: “In Google Sheets, you can use Google Workspace with Gemini to organize and process your spreadsheet data.” Google: “Use Gemini in Google Slides to create custom images.” In Sheets it also predicts the values missing from a column, and in Forms it writes the questions and summarises the answers people send back.
Smart Compose
and Smart Reply: finishes your sentences and offers ready-made replies
Predicts what you are about to write. Google: “Both features use machine learning to offer suggestions.” Google: “You can use Smart Compose in Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Drawings to help you write documents faster and more easily.” Google: “Smart Compose and Smart Reply don't provide answers and may not always provide factually correct information.” These are older features and not part of Gemini.
personal avatar
in Google Vids: a video presenter made from your own face and voice
Makes videos of a real person saying and doing things they never recorded. Google: “You can record your face and voice to create your personal avatar in Google Vids.” Google: “Once you’ve created your personal avatar, you can make AI videos.” Google: “Personal avatars are currently not available in the EEA, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom.”
AI classification
for Google Drive: reads every file in Drive and labels it automatically
Inspects the organisation’s files and applies labels without anyone opening them. Google: “AI classification for Google Drive automates the task of labeling files, without the need for programming.” There are two methods. Google: “As an administrator, you control the data your models train on.” Or, Google: “Use Gemini large language models (LLMs) to inspect file content and automatically apply labels based on customizable, plain-language instructions you define.” Once a model is trained, the labels are applied to new and existing files.
Gemini in Google Meet
changes how you look and sound on a call, and generates backgrounds
Alters the picture and the sound of a person in a video call. Google: “To help improve your Google Meet video quality, studio look uses artificial intelligence to fix issues caused by low light or low quality webcams.” Studio lighting relights your face, and Google: “Studio sound will automatically improve poor audio quality from typical bluetooth headsets and dial-in participants by using AI to recreate higher audio frequencies.” Meet also generates background images from a written prompt.
Ask Gemini in Meet
answers questions about a meeting while it is going on
Answers a participant’s questions during a Google Meet call about what has been said. Google: “Ask Gemini generates answers by referring to meeting captions, Google Workspace resources (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, Calendar, etc.) that the user has permission to view, and content from Google search and public websites.” Google: “Ask Gemini starts automatically after two participants join a meeting.” Google: “A user’s interactions and responses from Ask Gemini in Meet are private to that user.”
Speech Translation
translates what someone says in a meeting, in a voice like theirs
Translates speech in a Google Meet call as it happens, and speaks the translation in an imitation of the speaker’s own voice. Google: “As you talk, Speech Translation automatically translates your speech in real-time, in a voice like yours.” Google: “No audio is saved. No models are trained on your voice.” Google notes it is unavailable in live streams and recordings, and that translations run a few seconds behind.
Gemini in Chat
summarises conversations and answers questions about them
Reads a Chat space or conversation and reports on it. Google: “To summarize, generate action items, or answer questions about any space or conversation, use Gemini in Chat.” Google: “If you have access to Ask Gemini in Google Chat, you can access Gemini collaboration capabilities with Ask Gemini.” Where Ask Gemini is available, Google notes the side panel is removed.
Gemini Apps
Google’s chat assistant at gemini.google.com and in the Gemini mobile apps
A general-purpose assistant outside the Workspace apps. Google lists “Brainstorm ideas, develop a plan, or find different ways to get things done”, “Get a quick, easy to understand summary of more complex topics” and “Create first drafts of outlines, emails, blog posts, poems, and much more”.
Gemini Notebook
answers questions from sources you upload, and turns them into audio and mind maps
Works only from material you give it. Google: “Gemini Notebook is an AI-powered research assistant designed to help you refine and organize your ideas.” Google: “Chat with your notebook to get grounded information based on your sources with clear in-line citations for accuracy, transparency, and trust.” Google: “Transform your sources into approachable formats such as study guides, briefings, audio overviews, mind maps, and more.” Sources can be PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, Docs or Slides.
Google Workspace Studio
builds automated flows across your Workspace apps, using Gemini
Runs multi-step work on your Workspace data without a person driving each step. Google: “With Google Workspace Studio, you can automate routine tasks across Google Workspace services like Gmail, Sheets, and Drive, as well as other common apps using Gemini.” A flow can be written by describing it to Gemini, and a flow can contain AI steps. Google: “Approvals: Some flow steps may require user approval before running, depending on security policies set by your Google Workspace administrator.”
Google Flow
Google’s AI film-making tool: makes video clips and scenes from prompts
Generates video clips and scenes from written prompts; Google calls it its AI filmmaking tool. Google: “Google Flow was built with and for creatives and uses Google's most capable generative models.” Users must be 18 or over.
Gemini Beta
early Gemini features in Gmail, Docs, Chat, Meet, Keep, Sheets and more, all behind one switch
Gives users Gemini features before Google releases them generally — among them voice-driven Gemini in Gmail, Docs and Keep, an AI inbox that suggests to-dos, image generation and editing in Google Pics, and AI note-taking in in-person meetings. Google: “Gemini Beta is turned off by default.” Google: “Periodically, Google adds or removes Gemini Beta features, and this page is updated for the current, supported Gemini Beta features.”
