Google is upgrading Workspace, a suite of cloud-based productivity tools with new AI capabilities.
The suite acquires workspace flows designed to automate multi-step processes such as spreadsheet updates and digging documents for information. Flows can also handle special tasks by tapping Gems, Google’s brand of custom AI-driven chatbots. It can also be integrated with apps such as Google Drive to retrieve data.
Yulie Kwon Kim, vice president of products at Google Workspace, wrote in a blog post provided to TechCrunch. “We’re also working with our partners to connect to other third-party tools that rely on our workspace flows to support workflows beyond our workspaces.”
Extensions occur when it appears that Google is creating a Workspace to create a Workspace that competes with platforms like Microsoft 365, an AI-first experience. Search giants first began adding the creation AI feature to Workspace in March 2023, and recently removed the additional fees for certain AI workspace features, but the price of workspace plans has risen.
Elsewhere in the workspace, Google Docs will be able to quickly draft and modify podcast style overviews, notebook-room audio overviews, and copy snippets. A future feature called “Help Me Refine” will provide suggestions on how to enhance discussion, improve structure and make the points clearer, Kim said.
Google Sheets will be offering trends in new feature set “Help Me Analyze,” which will arrive later this year, guidance and spotlights, helping you create interactive charts. In Google Meet, a tool called “Take Notes for Me” allows you to summarise and summarise specific topics from video calls. Google Chat users can call Google’s Gemini chatbot by typing “@gemini” in the conversation.
Google Vids, Google’s AI-driven video creation app, will allow you to instantly generate video clips using Google’s VEO 2 model, which Google integrates with the app.
Finally, Google said it is implementing new data residency management that allows customers to restrict where data is processed in order to comply with regulations such as the EU GDPR.