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Preview summaries in the Google Chat home view now available in three additional languages

What’s changing

Last year, we announced that Gemini in Google Chat can now help you catch up on unread conversations in the Chat home view with summaries. Recently, we extended this ability to direct messages and read conversations. 

Upon navigating to a conversation in home, click the “Summarize” button to see a quick, bulleted synopsis of the message content. This enables you to quickly review recent activity across all active conversations to determine where best to focus your time and attention. 

Today, we’re excited to announce that summaries in the home view are now available in three additional languages: 
  • Spanish 
  • Portuguese 
  • German 

Who’s impacted

End users 


Why it matters 

Since introducing a more streamlined user experience in Chat to help you find what you need much faster, we’re adding more ways to help you prioritize the most important conversations. This new summaries in home feature does just that by helping you catch up more quickly. 


Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
  • AI Meetings and Messages* 
*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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Reference your Google Calendar using Gemini in the side panel of Gmail in additional languages

What’s changing

Last year, we added Google Calendar to the list of apps that Gemini in Gmail connects with. As a result, users can ask Gemini in Gmail to perform select calendar related actions or answer questions about their calendars such as: 
  • When is my [first event] next week? 
  • Create a [30 min] calendar event for my weekly [yoga class] every [Monday and Wednesday] at [9 AM]. 
  • Create a [1h] event for [lunch] [tomorrow] at [noon]. 
Today, we’re excited to announce this feature is available in more than 20 additional languages: 
  • Arabic 
  • Catalan 
  • Chinese 
  • Czech 
  • Danish 
  • Dutch 
  • Finnish 
  • French 
  • German 
  • Greek 
  • Hebrew 
  • Hungarian 
  • Indonesian 
  • Italian 
  • Japanese 
  • Korean 
  • Malay 
  • Norwegian 
  • Polish 
  • Portuguese 
  • Romanian 
  • Russian 
  • Spanish 
  • Swedish 
  • Thai 
  • Turkish 
  • Ukrainian 
  • Vietnamese 
Check out our original announcements for using Gemini in the side panel of Gmail to reference your Google Calendar for even more information. 


Why you’d use it 

Gemini in Gmail can help you: 
  • Create calendar events. 
  • Learn additional details about the existing events in your Calendar. 

Additional details 

At this time, Gemini in Gmail cannot: 
  • Add or remove guests from events. 
  • Pull up attachments or RSVPs related to a meeting. 
  • Find the best time to meet with other people or find time slots when you’re available to meet. 
  • Create tasks, an out of office, focus times or set working locations. 
  • Add or manage meeting rooms. 

Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Starter, Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard and Plus 
  • Google One AI Premium 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
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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Educators can now upload content to Read Along in Google Classroom

What’s changing

In addition to the recent Read Along in Google Classroom feature that provides educators with more visibility into student performance, we’re excited to give them the ability to upload their own content into Read Along as part of the assignment creation process. 
Whether there’s a desire to include location-specific content that’s rich in local history and culture or provide materials aligned with geo-specific curriculum, this highly-requested feature expands Read Along’s current library by empowering educators to add content that addresses learners’ needs. 
uploading content to read along

Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Education Plus and the Teaching and Learning add-on 

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Help me write in Gmail now available in Japanese and Korean

What’s changing 

Help me write is an AI-powered writing feature in Gmail that helps draft new email content or refine existing text. Upon selecting the Help me write button in Gmail, you can choose between the following options: 
  • Write your draft: Use your own words to describe the message you’d like to draft. Help me write also understands the context from previous messages in an email thread to craft reply drafts that are relevant to the conversation. 
  • Formalize your draft: Change the tone of your draft to be more formal. 
  • Elaborate on your draft: Add further detail to your email message to build on the draft. Shorten your draft: Decrease the length of your email draft. 

Building upon our recent language availability announcement for Italian, French and German, we’re excited to introduce Help me write across web and mobile devices in two additional languages: 
  • Japanese 
  • Korean 

Who’s impacted 

End users 


Why you’d use it 

Whether you’re setting up a meeting with a prospective client or reworking an intro email for a new team member, Help me write in Gmail saves you the time drafting emails and provides the right tone and style for any message occasion. 


Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Web, Android & iOS:

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Starter, Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard and Plus 
  • Google One AI Premium 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 

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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Help me write in Google Docs now available in four additional languages

What’s changing

In 2023, we introduced Help me write, an AI-powered writing feature that helps get you started by writing something new in Google Docs or quickly refining existing text. Last May, we rolled out the ability to use Help me write in Spanish and Portuguese and today, we’re excited to announce that Help me write is now available in four additional languages: 
  • Japanese 
  • Italian 
  • French 
  • German 
Using Help me write in Docs, you can: 
  • Simply type a few words describing a topic you’d like to write about and a draft will be instantly generated for you. You then have a few options to adjust the results’ length, tone, or format. 
  • Select specific text and refine it to catch typos, polish word choice, and ensure a smooth, natural flow. Plus you can adjust the text’s length, tone, or even use your own prompt to modify it. 

Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why you’d use it 

Whether you’re a recruiter drafting a customized job description or an account executive drafting a sales pitch, Help me write saves you the time and effort of writing the first version of a document by enabling you to focus on bringing your ideas to life instead of conquering a blank page. Now, you can use Help me write in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, French, and German. 

Getting started


 Rollout pace 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Google One AI Premium 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Customers with the Gemini Business or Gemini Enterprise add-on* 
*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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More options for exporting your Google Workspace data are available in open beta

What’s changing

Beginning today, Admins can choose from several options when exporting their organization’s data (also known as ‘takeout’). Specifically, they will be able to:

  • Export data from all or multiple services, such as Gmail, Chat, or Drive.
  • Export Drive data based on existing Drive labels
  • Export data from within a specific date range
  • Export data from selected shared drives


Exporting data for specific services

Exporting data based on specific Shared Drives

Exporting data based on specific or custom date range

Exporting data based on specific Drive labels







This update is available in open beta, which means no additional sign-up is required.


Who’s impacted

Admins

Why it’s important

In 2022, we introduced the ability for admins to export user generated content by organizational unit (OU) or group, and prior to that update, data export was limited to a customer’s full set of user generated content. With this update, we continue to give our customers more flexibility and specificity over the data they export, which is important as business and compliance needs evolve.

Getting started


Rollout pace


Availability

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More options for exporting your Google Workspace data are available in open beta

What’s changing

Beginning today, Admins can choose from several options when exporting their organization’s data (also known as ‘takeout’). Specifically, they will be able to:

  • Export data from all or multiple services, such as Gmail, Chat, or Drive.
  • Export Drive data based on existing Drive labels
  • Export data from within a specific date range
  • Export data from selected shared drives


Exporting data for specific services

Exporting data based on specific Shared Drives

Exporting data based on specific or custom date range

Exporting data based on specific Drive labels







This update is available in open beta, which means no additional sign-up is required.


Who’s impacted

Admins

Why it’s important

In 2022, we introduced the ability for admins to export user generated content by organizational unit (OU) or group, and prior to that update, data export was limited to a customer’s full set of user generated content. With this update, we continue to give our customers more flexibility and specificity over the data they export, which is important as business and compliance needs evolve.

Getting started


Rollout pace


Availability

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Introducing updates to sources for NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus

What’s changing 

In addition to the new NotebookLM features announced a few weeks ago, we’re excited to introduce additional updates that improve upon the NotebookLM user experience as it relates to sources. Starting today, you can: 
  • Use the new “Discover sources” functionality to find related sources from the web based on the topic you’re interested in. You can then add these sources to your notebooks, expanding your research and building more comprehensive notebooks. 
  • Use multimodal PDFs as sources with NotebookLM’s enhanced capability to understand all the content within PDFs, which includes text, images and graphs. 

Who’s impacted 

Admins and end users (18+) 

Additional details 

NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus are available in 180+ regions where Gemini API is available and currently supports 35+ languages. For Audio Overviews, while you can upload sources from all supported languages, the spoken audio is currently only available in English. 

Your uploads, queries and the model's responses are not used to train models and are not reviewed by human reviewers or otherwise used for product improvement without permission. Your data remains your data and any files uploaded, queries and responses are not shared outside your organization’s trust boundary. 

Users can only upload sources from Workspace that they have permission to access. Furthermore, they can control who has access to their notebooks and set more granular permissions within each. 

Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

These features are available to NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus users. 

NotebookLM is available as a core service for Google Workspace: 

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

NotebookLM Plus is available as a core service for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 

NotebookLM Plus is available as a core service for Google Workspace for Education customers with these add-ons: 
  • Gemini Education 
  • Gemini Education Premium 

Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive NotebookLM Plus as a core service: 
  • 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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Pre-configure the Google Workspace apps admin setting for the Gemini app ahead of general availability

What’s changing

Workspace apps (formerly known as Workspace Extensions) for the Gemini app will soon transition from open beta to general availability. We know that switching between apps to complete tasks can be tedious and time consuming, so with Gemini now able to connect across your apps, like Gmail, Docs, Calendar, and Drive, it can provide more context to your prompts and help you be more productive. 


Generative AI > Gemini App > Apps > Allow access to Workspace apps after beta (upcoming general availability)


As part of this transition, we will turn the Workspace apps admin setting ON by default. We expect general availability to begin rolling out by the end of April 2025. Starting today, admins can decide whether access is ON or OFF when the feature becomes generally available using the new “Allow access to Workspace apps after Beta (upcoming general availability)” setting.

Providing the admin setting ahead of general availability provides admins time to review their configuration ahead of the launch:

  • No action is required if you want Workspace apps to remain “ON” for users with the Gemini app enabled.
  • If you do not want your users to access Workspace apps in the Gemini app or have custom settings at the user, group, or organizational unit (OU) levels, please configure the “Allow access to Workspace apps after Beta (upcoming general availability)” setting as soon as possible.

Additional details

  • Workspace apps are only available to users 18+.
  • Google Workspace apps honors access control settings for files within Drive, meaning users can only access files that they own or have been shared with them (excluding files shared via Shared Drive).
  • Your use of Gemini with Workspace apps is governed by your organization’s Workspace agreement, including the Cloud Data Processing Addendum. Your chats and uploaded files in Gemini app won’t be reviewed by human reviewers or otherwise used to train generative AI models without your permission. Refer here for more detail.
  • The beta setting, “Allow access to Workspace apps in Beta (current phase)”, will be removed from the admin console once the feature becomes generally available.
  • Workspace apps are not available to Google Workspace users accessing Gemini as an additional Google service.
  • This update does not impact your current Gemini app service setting.

Getting started

  • Admins: Review and update the Workspace apps setting before the general availability expected to begin at the end of April. Visit the Help Center for more information on turning Workspace apps in Gemini on or off.
  • End users: If enabled by your admin, connecting Google Workspace allows users 18 and older to summarize, get quick answers, and find information from apps and services like Gmail, Docs, and Drive directly in Gemini. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Google Workspace apps.

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*
  • Gemini Education
  • Gemini Education Premium

*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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Support for continuous framing on select Logitech Series One room kits

What’s changing

If you’re joining a meeting from a Logitech Rally Bar, Rally Bar Mini, and Rally Bar Huddle device, you can now take advantage of the devices built-in continuous framing. When enabled, the camera will continuously adjust to optimally frame those in the meeting room, including participants coming and leaving the room. 


The feature can be selected and used by meeting participants directly from the touch controller.


Getting started



Rollout pace


Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Logitech Rally Bar and Logitech Rally Bar Mini camera systems. 

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