Google is expanding its Gemini-powered AI capabilities across its Workspace apps on Tuesday, March 10.
With Gemini, users can generate fully formatted documents, spreadsheets and presentations by synchronizing data from Gmail, chat and Drive.
The new feature focuses on improving the user experience with Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drives. This step moves simple chatbots into personal 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 his first draft. With sync between apps, AI can help unify multiple contributors’ voices and “Match doc format” to mirror another document’s structure.
Google Sheets
Google Sheets is getting its biggest update yet. Now users can ask Gemini to build entire spreadsheets from scratch, such as moving to Chicago, and have all the necessary checklists and utility 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 application deadlines at universities.
Google Slides
On Google Slides, Gemini helps users create fully editable slides that match a deck’s theme by drawing context from files, emails, and the web. Future updates will enable the creation of complete multi-slide presentations at once.
Google Drive
Google Drive is shifting from a storage tool to a collaboration partner. The natural language search results now have “AI Overviews” that provide information with citations. The “Ask Gemini in Drive” tool can answer complex questions across documents, emails, calendar and the web.
The features are only available to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers for now. In addition, the AI assistance is available globally for Docs, Sheets and Slides and in the US for Drive.
