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Today, we’re releasing new adoption and usage metrics to our Gemini reports in the Admin console. These new reports offer administrators comprehensive visibility into AI feature usage and thresholds to help them better manage their Workspace subscription and Gemini adoption. This includes usage data by features, apps, and active users.

With these new metrics, administrators can better understand how users are engaging with Gemini features across Workspace apps. Admins can use this information to make decisions on AI enablement, adoption, and productivity for their organizations. This data also offers insight into when they may need to adjust their Workspace subscriptions and plan for potential upgrades when users have reached their maximum AI usage thresholds.

Gemini usage report in the Admin console that shows per-feature data on active users and users at the limit


User-level Gemini usage report in the Admin console that shows data across apps and overall activity

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers and Workspace Individual subscribers

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Audio summaries in Google Docs, a new Gemini-powered feature that enables you to listen to a brief overview of your document, can help you get up to speed quickly and understand the most important parts of your content. For example, you can quickly catch up on notes before a meeting, or summarize a long report and get the highlights in only a few minutes.

Audio summaries provide a short verbal synopsis of the contents in your document, including multiple tabs. These summaries are typically under a few minutes long, and use a natural speaking style to help you catch up quickly and efficiently.

You can personalize your audio experience by selecting different voices like narrator, persuader, coach, and more.  Plus, you can adjust playback speeds to suit your preferences and learning style.



Quickly access the Listen to document summary option in the Tools menu

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Google AI Ultra for Business add-on
  • Google AI Pro for Education add-on
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra

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Over the past year, we've launched groundbreaking AI capabilities into our Workspace plans, such as comprehensive Deep Research reports and stunning image generation with Nano Banana Pro. These AI features come with usage limits that are sufficient for many users, but your most innovative teams may want even more.

To meet that demand, we’re introducing AI Expanded Access, a new Workspace add-on that sits between our standard offering and our top-tier plan. This gives organizations more choice in how they empower their power users with these advanced AI capabilities:

  • Business and Enterprise plans: Includes standard access in most Workspace plans at no extra cost.
  • AI Expanded Access add-on (New!): Unlocks higher access to allow teams to further scale their impact.
  • AI Ultra Access add-on (formerly Google AI Ultra for Business): Provides the highest access to help specialists push what's possible as they tackle their most ambitious creative, coding, and research projects.
Advanced AI features with higher access available through these add-ons include:

  • Advanced image generation: Create and edit more images using Nano Banana Pro in Slides, NotebookLM, and the Gemini app to find the perfect visual for every placement and audience segment.
  • Video generation: Scale video production to a daily content engine by generating more professional-grade videos using Veo 3.1 in Vids (including the use of AI avatars), Flow and the Gemini app.
  • Gemini app: Solve complex strategic problems with higher access to deep reasoning in our most capable models such as Gemini 3 Pro.
  • NotebookLM: Get instant insights from even larger source libraries and generate more high-value outputs to accelerate understanding, such as Audio Overviews, infographics, and Mind Maps.
  • Workspace Studio (rolling out now*): Execute more automations from ad-hoc tasks like labeling emails to always-on workflows that deliver pre-meeting briefs and auto-create follow-up tasks.
  • Speech translation (rolling out now*): Bridge language gaps in more meetings, automatically translating speech in real-time, while maintaining the tone and voice of the speaker.
Visit the Help Center for details on feature availability and limits. As we release new advanced AI features, your teams will also get higher access to these through the AI Expanded and AI Ultra add-ons.

*Workspace Studio is now available for Rapid Release and expected for Scheduled Release by the end of February; promotional access to higher limits of Workspace Studio in Business and Enterprise plans will remain in effect until March 31, 2026. 

**Speech translation in Google Meet is currently rolling out to Rapid Release domains and expected to start rolling out to Scheduled Release domains later in February. Promotional access to higher limits of speech translation in Business and Enterprise plans is ongoing; we’ll communicate any updates to these limits in advance of them going into effect.

What’s not changing

To ensure every customer can benefit from AI, we’ll continue to include standard access to these advanced capabilities in most Workspace Business and Enterprise plans at no additional cost.

Additionally, features like Take notes for me in Meet, Help me write in Gmail, Help me create in Docs, and more are available in our standard plans with generous limits designed to support the everyday needs of most teams. This ensures these powerful tools remain an accessible and essential part of your plan.

Getting started

  • Admins: The AI Expanded Access add-on can be purchased and assigned to specific users with eligible Business or Enterprise plans to provide more access to advanced AI capabilities.
    • Admins can review AI feature usage levels (by feature, user, and app) in the Admin console at Generative AI > Gemini reports.
  • End users: Users assigned a license will automatically get access to higher usage limits for certain AI features. Users will see an "Expanded" badge in the Gemini app, NotebookLM, and Flow, associated with their AI Expanded license.

Rollout pace

  • Starting today, the AI Expanded Access add-on is available to purchase, and will enable higher usage of AI capabilities in Workspace apps, including the Gemini app, NotebookLM, and Flow.
  • Workspace customers with Business and Enterprise plans currently have promotional access to higher usage of certain AI features in their plans, including advanced image generation with Nano Banana Pro, and video and AI avatar generation with Veo 3.1. Beginning March 1, 2026, Workspace customers will need to purchase the AI Expanded Access add-on to continue to get higher access to these advanced AI features.

Availability

Starting today, customers with the Google Workspace plans below can purchase the AI Expanded Access add-on:

  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
Visit the Help Center for more details on which AI capabilities you can start accessing with higher usage when you purchase the add-on, and how to manage access to additional services like Flow.

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Gemini in Chrome is rolling out now to Chromebook Plus devices in the US. This feature empowers business and education users with AI tools that integrate seamlessly into their daily browsing workflows while maintaining strict data governance. It’s also available to users with personal Google accounts who can access the Gemini app.

Gemini in Chrome allows users to:

  • Get answers and insights: Summarize articles, clarify complex concepts, or find specific information based on the context of open tabs.
  • Generate content: Draft emails and social media posts, or create images directly in the browser.
  • Go Live: Engage in two-way voice conversations with Gemini Live to brainstorm ideas or prepare for meetings.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all US Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts who are signed in to the Gemini app 18 years and older
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Starting today, we’re bringing generative AI capabilities in Google Workspace for Education to more educators and students around the world. The following features are now available to users 18 and older with a Google Workspace for Education Plus or Teaching and Learning add-on license at no additional cost:

  • Gemini in Docs: Create content in seconds with Help Me Write and Gemini in the side panel of Docs.
  • Gemini in Slides: Enhance presentations with the ability to create original images and slides in the side panel of Slides.
  • Gemini in Forms: Quickly create forms and see AI summaries of responses.
  • Gemini in Vids: Create polished videos with a simple text prompt or from existing slides.
These features are already available to many Google Workspace customers and users with business, enterprise, and Google One plans, as well as the Google AI Pro for Education add-on. Visit the Help Center for more information on which features are available in which plans.





In the coming months, we’ll also make some Gemini in Sheets features available to the Education Plus plan and Teaching & Learning add-on. Additionally, we’ll provide more granular controls that administrators can use to manage access to Gemini for individual Workspace apps. For example, administrators will be able to enable or disable access to Gemini in Docs and Gemini in Slides separately. We’ll share another announcement when these granular controls become available.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Already available to many Workspace customers and users, including those with Google AI Pro for Education
  • Starting today, available to users 18 years and older with Education Plus or the Teaching and Learning add-on

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Users now have an even faster way to choose the best time to meet with their colleagues using Google Calendar.

Whether you’re creating a new meeting or need to move an existing one, Gemini helps you identify the best times to meet by analyzing your colleagues’ availability—including time zones, working hours, and existing conflicts—to suggest the best options for everyone if you have access to their calendar.

When creating a meeting, click Suggested times and let Gemini suggest the best times to meet your colleagues. Then, you can quickly review and select the most suitable time slot.

For meeting organizers, if multiple attendees decline your invite, we’re also making it easier to reschedule your meeting. When you open the event, you’ll see a banner with a time when everyone is available, letting you update the invite with the click of a button.



Suggested meeting times in Google Calendar

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Google AI Pro for Education add-on
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In September 2025, we launched Ask Gemini in Meet, which brings the power of Gemini into your organization’s meetings. Today, we’re excited to announce we’re making the feature more broadly available to:

  • Workspace Business Standard customers - Ask Gemini in Meet is currently available to Enterprise customers, and starting in late January, the experience will become available to Business Standard domains as well.
  • An additional seven languages - Ask Gemini in Meet is currently available in English only. Beginning in early February, it will become available in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. The feature supports one language at a time; multiple languages spoken in the same meeting aren't currently supported. More languages will become available in the future.
  • Users on mobile - Also starting in February, Ask Gemini in Meet will become available on the Google Meet mobile app. To access it, tap on the Gemini icon in the top right corner during a meeting.
As a reminder, you use Ask Gemini in Meet to:

  • Get a quick brief on the goals and topics for the meeting you’re in
  • List key takeaways, decisions, and action items mentioned in the meeting
  • Catch up on what you missed if you joined late (as long as Take Notes for Me was enabled)

Getting started

Rollout pace

  • Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains
    • Expansion to Business Standard: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 26, 2026
    • Additional seven languages: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on February 2, 2026
    • Meet mobile app: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on February 9, 2026
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Admins can now access usage metrics for Google Meet within the organization-level Gemini reports dashboard, in the “Gemini usage per interaction” section. This update gives you visibility into the value your organization derives from Gemini in Meet.

Specifically, the reported metrics include:

  • Usage: The number of times where Gemini was actively used in meetings, such as usage for features like “Take notes for me” or “Ask Gemini in Meet”
  • Users: The number of unique users who actively used Gemini in meetings
Visit the Help Center for more information on active usage.


This update also ensures greater accuracy in active usage metrics for Google Meet. Given this, you may see updated metrics reported for 28D active users and overall usage of Meet. 

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Gemini reports.
  • End users: There is no end user impact or action required.

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

  • Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Frontline Starter, Standard, Plus
  • Individual
Also available to: 

  • Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • Google AI Ultra for Business add-on
  • Google AI Pro for Education add-on
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Last year, we made Gemini in Classroom available to all Google Workspace for Education editions with features to help educators create content and resources through one central destination in Classroom.

Starting today, educators can now generate and share audio lessons to help students engage more deeply with instructional content and support various learning modalities. Educators will be able to customize the target grade, topic, and learning objectives to ensure the content is a customized companion to other aspects of the topic they are teaching. They’ll also be able to specify the type of audio discussion, like the number of speakers, and aspects of conversation such as whether it’s in an interview or conversational style.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available for Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Standard and Plus
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What’s happening

Earlier this year, we introduced Gemini “nudges” at the top of folders in Google Drive, and we’re now making it even easier to get the context of your folders at a glance. Gemini will now proactively provide insights about the files within a folder, right at the top of the folder view. This makes it easier to quickly understand what’s inside without having to open individual files. For a more in-depth look, you can click “Explore with Gemini” to get a full summary or ask follow up questions in the Gemini side panel. 

Get quick insights on your Google Drive folders with Gemini

This feature is designed to help you save time and stay organized by providing at-a-glance insights into your folders. It is an evolution of the previous version of folder nudges, moving from simple suggestions to proactive, intelligent insights. This feature is currently available in English only.

Getting started

  • Admins: To enable this feature for your users, you can turn on the default personalization setting for smart features in the Admin console.
  • End users: This feature will be ON by default for end users who have smart features and personalization turned on in their Google Workspace apps. To disable, you can “collapse” the “insights by Gemini” section of a folder. You can also disable this feature by turning off smart features entirely. 

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus

Also available to:

  • Google One AI Premium
  • Google AI Pro for Education
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What’s changing

Earlier this year, we launched Gemini in Google Classroom to help educators save time on planning and create more engaging lessons. In the coming weeks, we’re expanding Gemini in Classroom to students in higher education who are 18 years of age and older to help them study and learn.

From a central destination in Google Classroom, students will be able to access learning tools available with Gemini for Education, a no-cost version of the Gemini app built for educational institutions where you get expanded access to our most capable AI model and data isn’t reviewed by humans or used to train AI models.

Students will be able to

  • Learn about a topic: Get on-demand support and explanations of challenging concepts or step-by-step guidance with Guided Learning.
  • Take a quiz: test your knowledge with personalized practice quizzes based on specific topics or class materials to help prepare for exams.
  • Practice with flashcards: Easily transform notes and class materials into custom digital flashcards for quick review.
  • Create a study guide: Make a study guide about a certain topic, or upload class notes and materials for more personalized resources. 
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Additional details

Getting started

Gemini in Classroom is only available in English for Google Workspace for Education users over the age of 18. The student experience will be available for users whose role is defined as “Student” in Classroom, are in a higher education organization, and are in a group or OU with both Gemini and Gemini in Classroom set to On.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available for Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

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What’s changing

Earlier this year, we announced Help me create in Google Forms. Now, it is also available to users in Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, and German. You can use Help me create to enter a prompt that describes the form you want to create or a prompt that references supporting Docs, Sheets, Slides, or PDFs. Gemini will then generate a draft form, incorporating details from any files you reference, that can be used instantly or further customized.  


Help me create in Spanish helps users create a form with a simple prompt


Help me create in Spanish helps users create a form with a simple prompt

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace: 

  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Google AI Pro for Education
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra 
Also available to:

  • Gemini Business, Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

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What’s happening

Meeting participants can now configure the length of their meeting notes when using the "take notes for me" feature in Google Meet. By selecting the "Longer" option from the "Notes Length" menu, you can generate notes that are roughly twice as long as the standard document to help capture all the important details. Turn on longer notes for technical discussions, complex project meetings, or any session where every detail is critical.

Caption: Longer notes can be enabled by selecting “Longer” in Notes Length settings. Alt text: An animation showing the process of selecting the “Longer” option in the Notes Length settings for the “Take notes for me” feature in Google Meet.

Caption: Longer notes can be enabled by selecting “Longer” in Notes Length settings.

Alt text: An animation showing the process of selecting the “Longer” option in the Notes Length settings for the “Take notes for me” feature in Google Meet.

Note: This feature is currently only available in English. 

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: This feature will be OFF by default and can be enabled by the user. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Google AI Pro for Education
  • Frontline Plus
Also available to:

  • Google One AI Premium 
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • Gemini Business, Enterprise*
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

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What’s happening

We’re introducing AI-powered audio overviews for PDFs in Google Drive.

This new Gemini for Google Workspace feature allows your users to instantly convert long, text-heavy PDFs—such as industry reports, contracts, or lengthy meeting transcripts—into a conversational, podcast-style audio summary. With just one click, a new audio file is saved directly to their Drive. This feature is powered by the same underlying technology as NotebookLM’s popular Audio Overview feature.


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In today's fast-paced environment, dedicating time to read long documents can be a significant challenge. Audio overviews solve this by allowing users to absorb critical information while they are multitasking. Users can listen to the summaries from anywhere they can access their Drive files, whether they’re commuting, working out, or doing chores.

This feature can help your users:


  • Boost efficiency by allowing users to quickly grasp the main points of a long document in a two- to 10-minute audio summary,
  • Improve accessibility by providing an alternative format for consuming content, and
  • Enhance preparation by making it easier to quickly review materials before meetings or client presentations.
Once the audio overview is generated on a desktop, the user receives an email notification that the file is ready. The audio file is automatically saved to a new "Audio overviews" folder in their Drive, which they can then access from any mobile or desktop device.

Please note: At launch, this feature supports English-language PDFs only.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace

  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
Also available to

  • Google One AI Pro and AI Ultra
  • Google AI Ultra for Business
  • Google AI Pro for Education 

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What’s changing

Earlier this year, we announced a series of changes to AI classification for Google Drive, including a revamped user interface, an on-demand model training process, and support for multiple custom-trained models. Today, we’re excited to share the next step in the product’s evolution: Gemini-based models for data classification, now available in closed beta.  

This feature leverages Gemini models to apply data classification labels to files in Google Drive. To date, AI classification requires admins to identify and manually label training files for the AI model to learn the types of data associated with each data classification level. With this new capability, Gemini models offers admins another method to set up AI classification by eliminating the need for manual model training, replacing the process with administrator-defined instructions or prompts.

Gemini models interpret prompts, evaluate files, and apply appropriate data classification labels based on the provided instructions. For files labeled by Gemini, editors and owners on those files with the appropriate label permissions will have the opportunity to review and accept or modify the automatically applied label. 

Administrators maintain full control.

Administrators maintain full control. They select the label, provide instructions via a prompt, and scope the audience whose files are being evaluated. Audit logs capture when files are labeled or any user acceptance or modification of a Gemini-applied label occurs.  

Who’s impacted

Admins 

Why it matters

Data classification is a critical activity for organizations that are conscious about data protection, compliance, and reporting. However, data classification can also be challenging to put into practice, particularly when it comes to accurately classifying files at scale.  Using AI for data classification aims to address this problem by using a model’s ability to reason to achieve a high degree of data classification accuracy, at scale. 

Rollout pace

  • Closed Beta - customers must be manually enrolled to begin testing.

Getting started

  • Admins:  For customers interested in testing, we kindly ask that you share your interest by filling out this form. 
    • Please note – during this phase of product validation, enrollment will be limited. Our intent is to gradually onboard customers leading up to an Open Beta. 
    • Ideal closed-beta participants will be organizations with existing data classification programs, who have the capacity to actively test the models and are willing to engage with the Workspace product team to provide direct feedback on their experience. 
    • If you are selected for the Closed Beta, you will receive an email detailing specific onboarding instructions. 
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.

Availability

Available to Google Workspace:

  • Enterprise Plus 

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What’s changing

We’re expanding the capabilities of Gemini’s Deep Research feature by integrating it with your Google Workspace apps. This update allows Deep Research to seamlessly gather information from your content in Gmail, Chat, and Drive - including Slides, Sheets and Docs files - in addition to the web, to create a more comprehensive and personalized report.

Previously, users had to manually upload individual files from Drive to supplement their Deep Research. Now, Deep Research can pull securely from your Workspace content, including emails and even chats, informing reports with relevant context.


This update helps end users, including students, educators and those in small businesses, to do their best work by making research more efficient and context-aware. Your users can now integrate information directly from:

  • Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and PDFs in Drive, including non-Google files
  • Context from emails in Gmail
  • Information from Chat messages
Example use cases for end users:

  • Business planning: Users can ask Deep Research to kickstart analysis for a new product using team documents, build out a competitor report referencing internal strategy memos and communications, or help onboard onto a new project quickly after analyzing documents, emails, and chat history.
  • Project catch-up: Get quickly caught up on an in-progress project by asking, "Catch me up on my <some project you have docs, chats, emails about. e.g., my remodeling project>. What are some decisions I need to make, and for each, can you research potential options".
  • Academic research: Students and faculty can ask Deep Research to review their existing notes and research papers on a topic and combine that with web research to pull together an insightful report that includes insights from their own documents.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

  • Business Starter, Standard, Plus
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
  • Frontline Starter and Standard
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Nonprofits
Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons:

  • Gemini Business*
  • Gemini Enterprise*
  • Google AI Pro for Education
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

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What’s changing

We’re excited to announce source-grounded writing help in Google Docs. Gemini will automatically curate a list of sources linked in your document and you can choose to ask it to only pull details from those sources when providing writing assistance via the side panel. This will keep suggestions focused and grounded in trusted content. With source-grounded writing help you can:

  • Create contextual and reliable output from Gemini 
  • Query available knowledge on a topic, getting accurate answers that are tailored to your needs

Using this trusted and relevant content can help ensure you’re using exactly the context you need — no guesswork or tab switching required. 

Additionally, this launch can help save users time. All users have to do is link files in their document, which many users already do today, and then select "Document links" to ground on those files. 

Previously, users would have to remember and individually add files in the prompt field to ground Gemini in them. Adding files individually is still available for users that want to ground on files that are not linked in the document. However, this launch will make it quicker and easier for users that have already linked the relevant files in the doc to ground Gemini on that information, and can help ensure important sources are not left out.


Ground Gemini by selecting linked sources in the side panel
Ground Gemini by selecting linked sources in the side panel

Who’s impacted

End users

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: This feature will be available by default and is available in the side panel of Docs. Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to collaborate with Gemini in Google Docs. 

The dialog in the side panel where users can choose to ground Gemini in linked files


The dialog in the side panel where users can choose to ground Gemini in linked files

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

  • Business Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard, and Plus
  • Gemini Business, Enterprise
  • Google AI Pro for Education
  • Google One AI Premium 

Resources

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What’s changing 

Starting today, Gemini in Chrome is available to Google Workspace users with access to the Gemini app. Gemini in Chrome is an AI browsing assistant to help you get things done on Mac, Windows and iOS devices, allowing you to ask Gemini for answers and insights, conduct in-depth two-way conversations with Gemini Live, and more using the context of up to 10 browser tabs along with the Google Workspace app. 



Users have the option to turn on sharing for their current browser tab and up to 10 additional tabs. Once sharing is turned on, Gemini in Chrome will continue to reference the current browser tab until the user turns sharing off. 

Additional details 

  • Your access to Gemini app through Gemini in Chrome includes enterprise-grade data protections and is subject to the Google Workspace Terms of Service or your offline Workspace agreement for business customers, and the Google Workspace for Education Terms of Service for education customers. As a reminder, your content is not reviewed by human reviewers or otherwise used for Generative AI model training outside your domain without permission. Learn more at the Generative AI in Google Workspace Privacy Hub. 
    • Note: Not all Workspace editions receive access to the Gemini app as a core service. Visit the Help Center for more information. 
  • At launch, some of the compliance certifications achieved to date for Google Workspace customers accessing the Gemini app as a core service on web or mobile app do not apply to Gemini in Chrome. Refer to Gemini in Chrome section in Turn the Gemini app on or off for more information. 
  • Initially, this feature will be available: 
    • On Mac, Windows and iOS 
    • To users 18+ 
    • In English only 
    • In the US only 
  • Usage reporting: Gemini in Chrome usage will be included as part of Gemini app usage visible in the Admin Console under Generative AI > Gemini Reports and in other admin reporting tools like the Security Investigation Tool. 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 

  • Business Starter, Standard, Plus 
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus 
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus 
  • Frontline Starter, Standard, and Plus 
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus 
  • Nonprofits 

Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons: 

  • Gemini Business - Legacy* 
  • Gemini Enterprise - Legacy* 
  • Google AI Ultra for Business 
  • Google AI Pro for Education 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

Resources 

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What’s changing 

You can now create custom background images with Gemini from your Android or iOS device. Meeting backgrounds can help obscure your surroundings during a meeting or they can enhance the meeting itself, and now you can take advantage of this feature whether you’re joining a meeting from Google Meet on the web or on mobile devices. 



Getting started: 


Rollout pace: 


Availability: 

Available for Google Workspace:

  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Also available with the Google AI Pro for Education add-on and to anyone who previously purchased the Gemini Business, Gemini Enterprise, and AI Meetings and Messages add-on.


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What’s changing 

We have previously launched the ability for users on the web to collaborate with Gemini in Google Drive. Now, we're excited to extend Gemini’s capabilities to users on mobile in the Drive apps for Android and iOS. This integration empowers Drive users of the mobile apps to seamlessly ask questions about their files and folders and receive conversational responses, mirroring the existing functionality available on Drive Web. 

For example, users on mobile can now use Gemini to: 

  • Summarize a long document or an entire folder so you can quickly get the main points. 
  • Discuss a topic that requires synthesizing information from one or more files in your Drive, either across your files or within a specific folder. 
  • Retrieve quick facts about a project or topic without the need to find and read the relevant documents. 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Google AI Pro for Education 
  • Google One AI Premium 

Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

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