- Workspace Intelligence connects to your Google ecosystem and third parties
- The entire Gemini experience feels more cohesive across the board
- Google is still trying to convince you to migrate away from M365
Google Cloud has shared details about the all-new Workspace Intelligence layer, which serves to combine organizational context with artificial intelligence.
For the end user – in this case business customers – this means the Gemini experience feels far more cohesive across the entire platform, moving beyond generic AI to unlock actual business data like 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 apps.
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Workspace Intelligence is the layer Gemini always needs
Speaking at Google Cloud Next 2026, product director Yulie Kwon Kim said it now allows users to build reports and forecasts, draft presentations from multiple data sources, and execute multi-step, multi-app workflows.
Its core principle is to automate the process of finding relevant emails, files and web information to bridge apps and workflows, but there’s also an always-learning personalization element that understands how each employee styles and formats content.
Ultimately, it allows users to interact with Gemini in exactly the same way no matter where they are, be it within a specific Workspace app or Google Chat, and all of the same organization-wide context remains available throughout Google Workspace.
Importantly, it also includes third-party connections to external data sources, greatly enhancing the power of Gemini beyond just the Google environment. Early partners include HubSpot, Salesforce, Asana and Jira.
To coincide with the new intelligence layer, AI Overviews and Ask Gemini have now been made generally available to help users interact with and summarize multiple documents and projects with simplicity.
At the same time, the company is also announcing updates to its migration service, which is now up to five times faster for companies moving from Microsoft 365. Yulie positioned this as the perfect way for low-friction companies to test new Workspace AI features.
Workspace Intelligence is now rolling out to eligible users across certain paid business plans – the finer details can be found on the company’s website.
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