Create custom branded avatars in Google Vids with Nano Banana 2

Starting today, you can brand your custom avatars in Google Vids by uploading a logo of your choice and using the power of Nano Banana 2 to refine how it appears on screen. You now have the creative control to ensure your AI-generated presenters align with your organization's visual identity.

  • Brand consistency: Upload logo assets to ensure your avatars represent your brand accurately across all videos.
  • Nano Banana 2 refinement: Use Google’s latest models to adjust sizing and placement of logos to fit the style of your video.
  • Simple collaboration: Save your branded custom avatar in each Vid so collaborators can generate with the same speaker, ensuring consistency.
Sample of Vids branding as enamel pin

Sample of Google branding on t-shirt

UX of avatar branding

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter*, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter*, Standard, and Plus
  • Education: Education Plus*
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • Other Editions: Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits*
  • AI Add-ons: AI Expanded Access**; AI Ultra Access**; Google AI Pro for Education
  • Other Add-ons: Teaching and Learning*
*For a limited time, at least through May 31, 2026, Business Starter, Enterprise Starter, Nonprofit, Education Plus, and Teaching and Learning add-on accounts can access generative AI features in Vids. Learn about Google Vids availability.

**Users with AI Expanded Access and AI Ultra Access licenses will have higher limits on usage of avatars in Google Vids.

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AI Overviews in Drive now generally available

In March, we announced a beta for AI Overviews in Drive. This feature is now generally available and has started rolling out to eligible Google Workspace and Google AI plans.

Instead of searching through endless files and opening dozens of tabs to find the information you need, you can now get instant answers right at the top of your search results. Gemini does the heavy lifting for you, scanning your documents to provide clear, reliable summaries.

Here is how it helps you work smarter:

  • See the big picture: Get a quick summary of information pulled from multiple files without needing to open each one.
  • Ask naturally: There’s no need to use complicated search tricks. Just ask a question as you would to a colleague, like "What’s in our Spring 2026 catalog?"
  • Get the right answer: Gemini automatically understands what you’re looking for, whether it’s a quick fact, a project summary, or a list of specific documents, and adjusts its response to match.
  • Dig deeper with ease: If you need more information, you can go from a quick summary to a deeper conversation with Gemini in just one click.

Getting started

Rollout pace

AI Overviews in Drive in English:


AI Overviews in Drive in 28 additional languages:

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • AI Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education

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Ask Gemini in Drive now generally available

In March, we announced a beta for Ask Gemini in Drive. This feature is now generally available and has started rolling out to eligible Google Workspace and Google AI plans.

Google Drive isn’t just a place to store your work, it’s now the place to understand it. We’ve reimagined the experience with Gemini now offering a dedicated, immersive workspace designed for deep focus. You can now engage in high-context, multi-turn conversations to efficiently explore and understand content across Drive, Workspace apps, and the web.

Whether you are synthesizing years of client proposals or uncovering hidden customer trends, Ask Gemini in Drive provides a holistic view of your entire body of work.

Key features include:

  • Dedicated conversations: Engage in focused discussions about specific sets of files and folders. By grounding your questions in the relevant content, you get more precise, actionable answers.
  • Drive projects: Organize your work more effectively with Drive projects. This new feature in Drive allows you to curate related files and folders into a central, always up-to-date, and shared knowledge base, making it easier to manage complex workflows and keep your team aligned.
  • Persistent conversation history: Easily pick up where you left off. Your past chats are saved, allowing you to quickly revisit previous insights about specific folders or projects without starting over.
  • Secure and compliant: Ask Gemini in Drive and projects are built directly into the Drive architecture, it never copies or replicates your files. It honors your existing data protection and security controls, including access permissions, DLP policies, and IRM, ensuring Gemini only accesses content you are authorized to see.

Find and understand information across your Drive files, Workspace apps, and the entire internet

With this launch, we’re also expanding language support. Ask Gemini in Drive will roll out to all 29 languages currently supported in the Gemini side panel over the coming weeks (see the Rollout pace section below for more details).

Getting started

Rollout pace

Ask Gemini in Drive in English:

Ask Gemini in Drive in 28 additional languages:

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • AI Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education

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Faster performance and doubled cell limits in Google Sheets

We’re committed to continuously improving Sheets to ensure it is a powerful, responsive, and scalable spreadsheet tool for your needs. To that end, we’re announcing significant performance improvements across the entire Sheets experience, especially for larger data sets, making it faster than ever to import, analyze, and manage your data.

Some of the key Sheets journeys we’ve optimized to help you work with larger datasets more efficiently include:

  • Get started faster: You can now open and start working in large spreadsheets (1M+ cells) up to 30% faster. 
  • Rapid data analysis: You can now filter large spreadsheets (1M+ cells) up to 60% faster.
  • Easier formatting: You can now apply conditional formatting to large spreadsheets (1M+ cells) up to 60% faster.
These enhancements are part of our broader effort to ensure a smooth experience even as your spreadsheets grow in complexity.

Beta now available: Sheets capacity doubled to 20 million cells

Alongside faster analysis, we’re opening a new beta program to give users early access to doubled cell limits in Google Sheets—from 10 million cells to 20 million cells. This limit applies to new, existing, and imported files. Fill out the form to register your organization for the beta program and double Sheets limits.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts

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Effortlessly automate data entry in Google Sheets using Fill with Gemini

We're introducing Fill with Gemini in Google Sheets, a new AI-powered feature designed to make data preparation and manual entry even easier. Fill with Gemini infers your intent, allowing you to populate data 9x faster than manual entry for 100-cell tasks.*

Whether you need to extract information from the web or categorize existing data, Fill with Gemini handles the heavy lifting, eliminating the need for complex formulas. For example, a marketing team can use it to automatically generate suggested responses based on customer feedback messages, or a small business owner could use it to quickly fill out product details just by describing what they need.

Fill with Gemini offers two ways to enrich your data, saving you time and effort:

  • Drag-and-drop: If your column has at least one completed cell, you can use a new drag entry point to fill the column based on the context of the table.
  • Prompt-based filling: For empty multi-cell selections, you can use a one-click entry point to "Fill" the range. You can either automatically fill cells when a column has at least one completed cell or write a custom prompt to fit your specific needs.


*Data based on a 95-participant study comparing manual entry against Fill with Gemini on a 100-cell task.

Getting started

Note: Through July 15, 2026, Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher limits for AI function in Google Sheets, allowing users to experiment with these features. Per-user usage limits will apply after that date; we’ll provide more information in the Help Center in advance of updated usage limits going into effect.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • AI Add-ons: AI Expanded Access*; AI Ultra Access*; Google AI Pro for Education
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
*Once promotional limits are no longer in effect, users with AI Expanded Access and AI Ultra Access add-on licenses will have higher limits on usage of AI function in Google Sheets.

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Paste and convert unformatted text into Google Sheets tables with Gemini

We're excited to introduce a new AI-powered feature in Google Sheets that allows you to transform unstructured text into organized tables.

Manually formatting and organizing unformatted data in spreadsheets can be a tedious, time-consuming task. Now, when you paste content like bulleted lists, freeform text, or JSON we surface a “Convert to table” button which leverages Gemini to turn your pasted content into a table with just a single click. This helps to streamline data entry so you can move to analysis faster.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education: Google AI Pro for Education
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra

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Build and edit complex spreadsheets with Gemini in Google Sheets

We’re excited to introduce new Gemini in Sheets capabilities that enable you to build and edit entire spreadsheets using simple natural language.

Whether you need a quick view of your small business's financial health or a complex project tracker, Gemini in Sheets orchestrates the multi-step construction from start to finish. Workspace Intelligence synthesizes data across your files, emails, chats, and the web to help you visualize your data with stylized tables, formulas, pivot tables, and charts.

Gemini in Sheets can handle complex, multi-step tasks that previously required expert-level knowledge of Sheets. For example, you can ask Gemini to do end-to-end creation to "build a P&L dashboard leveraging my historic service incidents and rate cards," or do side-by-side editing to “add scorecards and bar charts above my sales and inventory data”. Gemini will synthesize relevant information, construct a plan for your approval, and then build out the entire formatted spreadsheet.

Key capabilities include:

  • End-to-end creation: Build entire spreadsheets from a single prompt, including data retrieval and formatting. 
  • Side-by-side editing: Refine and update existing models, budgets, or analysis directly in the side panel.
  • Workspace Intelligence: Automatically pull context and data from other Workspace apps to ensure your spreadsheet is accurate and relevant.
  • Advanced task fulfillment: Leverages Sheets’ most powerful tools, like pivot tables and complex formulas, without requiring manual configuration.
  • Advanced optimization: Handle complex optimization problems that typically require complex manual formulas or third-party tools. Powered by research from Google DeepMind and Google Research OR-Tools. 
  • State-of-the-art performance: Gemini in Sheets achieved a 70.48% success rate in autonomously manipulating complex, real-world spreadsheets on the full SpreadsheetBench dataset, nearing human expert ability.


Getting started

Note: Through July 15, 2026, Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher limits for the improved Gemini in Sheets experience, allowing users to experiment with this feature. Users will see a notification when they use this feature, informing them of the promotional access period. Per-user usage limits will apply after July 15; we’ll provide more information in the Help Center in advance of updated usage limits going into effect.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • AI Add-ons: AI Expanded Access*; AI Ultra Access*; Google AI Pro for Education
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
*Once promotional limits are no longer in effect, users with AI Expanded Access and AI Ultra Access add-on licenses will have higher limits on usage of Gemini in Sheets.

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New Gemini capabilities in Google Docs help you go from blank page to brilliance

We’re reimagining the AI writing experience in Google Docs to help you move from a blank page to a finished document faster than ever. Google Docs is evolving from a traditional word processor into a collaborator that understands your organization’s context.

Reimagined Gemini experience in Docs

Google Docs now offers a centralized place to generate, write, and refine your documents with Gemini. Powered by Workspace Intelligence, Gemini leverages data across Drive, Gmail, Chat, and the web to provide personalized, context-aware assistance.

  • The upgraded Help me create experience enables you to generate relevant, fully formatted first drafts that synthesize information from your files, emails, chat, and the web.
  • With Help me write, simply prompt Gemini from the new bottom bar or side panel to make edits across your doc, or select text to focus Gemini’s attention. Gemini’s suggested edits are only visible to you until you approve them.
  • Match writing style helps maintain a consistent tone and style across your entire doc, no matter how many people are working on it.
To generate new docs from scratch, open a new doc, enter your prompt, and click submit. To edit existing docs, simply hover over the spark near the bottom of your doc and type a prompt in the bottom bar.




Generate on-brand documents using your existing docs and templates

Looking to quickly populate a template or replicate the refined style of your favorite docs? With Match doc format, Gemini can now mirror a source document to generate content that adheres to the original's formatting (e.g., fonts and colors) and structural elements (e.g., headings and table columns).

Note that we’re launching these features in English first, with Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Korean support to follow soon after.

Getting started

Note: Through June 1, 2026, Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher limits for Match writing style and Match document format tools within the upgraded Gemini in Docs, allowing users to experiment with this feature. Per-user usage limits will apply after that date; we’ll provide more information in the Help Center in advance of updated usage limits going into effect.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education: Education Plus
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • AI Add-ons: AI Expanded Access*; AI Ultra Access*; Google AI Pro for Education*
  • Other Add-ons: Teaching and Learning
*Once promotional limits are no longer in effect, users with AI Expanded Access, AI Ultra Access, and Google AI Pro for Education add-on licenses will have higher limits on usage of Match writing style and Match document format tools.

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Introducing Workspace Intelligence, with admin controls

Today, we announced Workspace Intelligence, an underlying AI system that provides Gemini with a real-time understanding of your work across Google Workspace. With Workspace Intelligence, all of your generative AI tasks within Workspace will be grounded in your Workspace data across Gmail, Chat, Calendar, and Drive (including Docs, Sheets, and Slides), eliminating the need for users to manually provide context to Gemini on every query.

As an administrator, you can control which data sources Workspace Intelligence can use for your organization via new settings in the Admin console.


Impact of disabling data sources

If you turn off Workspace Intelligence for a data source, generative AI features will not actively search for content from the disabled source. However, if a user adds a specific source to their prompt, that source will be used in Gemini's response. For example, if you turn off Drive as a source, users can still ask Gemini about specific files. Gemini will consult these specific files, but it won't actively search for other files. We recommend keeping access to all data sources ON to ensure optimal performance of AI features across Workspace.

Strong privacy protections

These changes align to our existing data handling practices and privacy commitments. AI features respect user-level content access, ensuring that responses are grounded only in content that a user already has permission to view. Your data is never used to train generative AI models or for advertising purposes.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Education: Education Plus
  • Other Editions: Frontline Plus, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits
  • AI Add-ons: AI Expanded Access; AI Ultra Access; Google AI Pro for Education
  • Other Add-Ons: Teaching and Learning

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