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Users now have access to Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash directly within Google Vids. Omni 1.2 provides longer duration videos up to 15 seconds and improved quality resulting in higher character consistency and vocal realism.



Omni in Vids user experience

  • Choose a length up to 15s: Customize a clip’s duration by sliding from 3-15s to improve video pacing. 
  • Improved reference consistency: Generations now offer better consistency when using references ensuring characters or products look the same across generations.
  • Greater speaker variety: Outputs offer improved speaker variety with wider dynamic ranges improving realism.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Education: Education Plus
  • Consumer: Users with personal Google accounts; Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • Other Editions: Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits; Individual
  • Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning
  • Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access*

*Users with AI Expanded Access add-on licenses have higher limits on usage of Omni in Vids.

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Making sense of form responses and figuring out what to do next can take time, especially when you're working through many responses across multiple questions. Today, we're introducing actionable insights in Google Forms, which uses Gemini to analyze your form responses, uncover key trends, and recommend next steps so you can act on your results faster.

With this launch, you can generate insights directly from the Responses tab of your form. Gemini analyzes your responses by writing and running Python code, so findings like counts, percentages, and comparisons are grounded in your actual response data. Gemini spots patterns and cross-question correlations to reveal how different answers connect. Finally, Gemini summarizes the most important takeaways and suggests recommended next steps.

Actionable insights can help with a wide range of forms, such as:

  • Event and product feedback: Understand what respondents valued most and where there's room for improvement.
  • Research surveys: Quickly spot trends and patterns across responses.
  • Registration and application: Get a clear picture of who is signing up or applying.


Gemini uncovers insights from a feedback form for a business networking event and recommends next steps

Getting started

  • Admins: To access Gemini in the side panel of Workspace apps, users need to have smart features and personalization turned on. Admins can turn on default personalization setting for their users in the Admin console. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
  • End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about actionable insights in Google Forms.

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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Building on our announcement earlier this year, a new Google Classroom integration that lets teachers add Guided Learning to any assignment is now rolling out globally in all Gemini-supported languages. Guided Learning is a mode in the Gemini app designed to help students deepen their understanding with step-by-step guidance, rather than giving the answer. Similar to how teachers can assign Gemini Notebooks in Classroom, this feature enables educators to embed structured and curriculum-informed AI-guided sessions directly into their lesson plans while maintaining visibility into student progress.

Key benefits:

  • Informed by your curriculum: Educators can select specific sources from Classroom to serve as context, helping ensure that the assigned Guided Learning is relevant and directly aligned with what is being taught in their classroom.
  • Grounded in learning science: Grounded in Google’s LearnLM research, Guided Learning is built to support learners’ work - stimulating curiosity, providing scaffolding, facilitating productive struggle, and offering graduated hints.
  • Helping educators focus their support: Guided Learning serves as a supportive 1:1 tool to field students' initial questions about independent practice or homework, freeing up valuable teacher time to focus attention on the learners who need direct support.
  • Focused view for students: When students open the assigned Guided Learning from Classroom, the Gemini side navigation panel is automatically hidden, new chats are disabled within the tab, and they remain in Guided Learning mode.
  • Actionable insights for the entire class and individual students: Teachers can see  AI-generated insight summaries in Classroom based on students’ conversations with the assigned Guided Learning activity at both the class level and individual student level, helping educators inform instruction. Additionally, teachers can access individual student chat transcripts.
  • Seamless integration with Class Tools on Chromebooks: For educators and students using ChromeOS and Class Tools, Guided Learning in Classroom can be launched directly to maintain a secure, unified, and locked-down environment where students are focused on a single tab and teachers can remotely view students’ screens to monitor progress.


How educators can use Guided Learning:

  • Provide scaffolded support for STEM problem-solving: For complex math or science problems, attach a Guided Learning activity so students can get extra support when they get stuck. This helps students navigate speed bumps independently, while giving teachers insights into where students are still struggling.
  • Deepen inquiry and conceptual extensions: Use Guided Learning for open-ended exploration and extension tasks, so students can develop their understanding of core concepts at their own pace and make meaningful cross-curricular connections.
  • Support collaborative brainstorming: Ask students to discuss and talk through their project ideas with help from Guided Learning to build confidence and refine their thoughts before participating in wider group discussions.
  • Extend support beyond the classroom: Offer Guided Learning as an on-demand tutoring assistant during homework and remote study, ensuring help outside of standard class time.


Educators can learn more about Guided Learning and ways to bring this tool into instruction in the Guided Learning in Classroom Guide.

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Rollout pace

Availability

  • Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

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To help ensure end users at your organization are familiar with your organization’s policies for handling meeting artifacts like recordings, transcriptions and notes by Gemini, we’re introducing the ability to set custom policy text from the admin console that is displayed prior to users joining Google Meet calls.

As an admin, you’ll be able to display a custom, short message that appears in the Green Room prior to users joining a Meet call and even include a URL to a webpage that includes more information about your company's policies. You can choose to have this policy always be displayed or only when the meeting is currently being recorded, transcribed, or notes are being taken by Gemini.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard, and Plus
  • Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
  • Other Editions: Frontline Plus
  • Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education

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Update: November 3, 2026: Rollout for this feature is paused. We will post an update when it resumes. We have updated the rollout timelines listed below in this post to reflect this change. 

Users can now upload images to create custom avatars directly within Google Vids. This enables greater options for customization and more precise creative control by uploading your own image, in addition to the ability to build a custom avatar from scratch. 


Upload Avatar user experience 

  • Upload an image: Choose an image from your local computer, Drive, or Photos to create an avatar from. 
  • Refine images in Vids: Refine the image within Vids to cleanup backgrounds, lighting, or add festive decorations. 
  • Save for reuse in a project: Custom avatars are saved to the Vids project, so they can be reused consistently within a video. 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus 
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus 
  • Education: Education Plus 
  • Consumer: Users with personal Google accounts; Google AI Pro and Ultra 
  • Other Editions: Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits; Individual 
  • Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning 
  • Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access 

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You can now use Gemini in Google Slides to edit multiple slides or an entire presentation at once. With a single prompt in the Slides side panel, you can update content throughout a deck, refresh visual styles in bulk, or match the style of another presentation. Gemini determines which slides need to change and applies edits directly to your native, editable slides, so you stay in full control to make any further adjustments.

Try the following to update your presentations in less time:

  • Refresh visual styles: Update fonts, backgrounds, color schemes, and more across the entire deck. For example: "Update this whole deck to match the style of this [reference file]"
  • Update content throughout the deck: Simplify, expand, or change the focus of your presentation, grounded in your files from Google Drive. For example: "Update this presentation to include more details based on [reference file]."
  • Combine or expand slides: Condense multiple slides into one, or add new slides to an existing deck. For example: "Summarize slides 5–7 into a single slide."
  • Make styling consistent: Align title styles or remove page numbers across all slides. For example: "Make the titles on all slides the same font size and color."

Once Gemini finishes, a summary of the changes appears in the side panel. Edits are applied as if you made them, so you can use undo or version history to review or revert them.

Note: At launch, this feature will be supported in English only.


Getting started

Note: Through at least December 1, 2026, Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher limits for creating multi-slide presentations using Gemini in Google Slides, allowing users to experiment with this feature. Users will see a notification when they use this feature to inform them of the limited higher promotional access period. 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
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education

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We’re introducing new ways to create and refine files and code in the Gemini app. You can now generate, preview, and edit files right within your Gemini app chat—expand to full screen to type edits directly, highlight text to ask questions, or have Gemini refine them. PDF preview and editing is supported on both the web and mobile, while all other formats (documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files, and code) are supported on the web only. Here are just some of the new things you can do:

  • Generate and refine slide decks: Create presentation outlines or slide content, preview the layout in chat, and edit directly or ask Gemini to adjust the tone and structure before opening in Google Slides, or downloading as a PPTX or PDF.
  • Build and export Google Sheets: Generate structured trackers, tables, and data models from a prompt, preview them in Gemini, and open them directly in Google Sheets.
  • Edit documents and PDFs: Quickly draft PDFs, Google Docs, LaTeX, Markdown, or TXT files, and make manual or prompted edits inline on web or in a full-screen view—plus you can upload all of them to Drive.

These capabilities are now available to all users in all languages where the Gemini app is available.


Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning the Gemini app on or off.
  • End users: Users of all ages who have access to the Gemini app can generate files. To get started, ask Gemini to generate your desired file type. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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We’re introducing a library of immersive explorations in the Gemini app, giving users an interactive, visual way to explore topics layer-by-layer, from microscopic systems to deep space. Users can access this library in the Gemini student hub by clicking on “Try immersive explorations” and will soon be able to access these immersive explorations directly in a chat conversation with Gemini.

Whether it’s tracing trade routes on the Silk Road, peering inside a jet engine, or studying the physics of lightning, each scene unfolds into interactive nodes with guided explanations. Users can tap a layer to dig deeper, journeying from sweeping planetary scales straight down to molecules and atoms. Immersive explorations will soon include audio narration to walk users through each layer.

This feature is available on web and mobile to all users in the following languages: English, Indonesian, Hindi, Brazilian Portuguese, French, and simplified Chinese. Users in all other languages currently receive an English-only experience, with more languages coming soon.


Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

In the Gemini student hub:

  • Available to Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

In the Gemini app at at gemini.google.com/immersive-explorations:

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts.

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Google Sheets now supports compact form layout for pivot tables, which keeps multi-level pivot tables readable while reducing excessive horizontal scrolling. You can choose a layout directly from the pivot table editor:

  • Outline form: each row field is displayed in its own column
  • Compact form: all row fields are nested in a single column, with indentation and inline expand/collapse buttons showing the hierarchy

Compact form support also comes with enhanced Microsoft Excel import compatibility. Previously, importing Excel files containing compact form pivot tables into Sheets would convert them to outline form, changing the structure of the pivot table. Now, the source layout is preserved on import and maintained if the file is exported back to Excel.



Switching a pivot table to compact form layout in Google Sheets

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Rollout pace

Availability

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

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We are making it easier to verify your AI-generated data and scale your workflows in Google Sheets. When you use the AI function to generate cell values, Gemini will now provide the exact web sources referenced directly within each individual cell. This cell-level source attribution gives you full visibility to audit, verify, and cross-reference outputs for greater trust and accuracy. Sources are attributed to each individual cell and are available in Google Sheets on the web.

In addition, upgraded processing delivers faster response times and improved cell-over-cell consistency, performing up to 55 times faster than manual entry for 500 cell tasks*. Combined with expanded capacity supporting up to 3,000 cells per request, you can summarize, categorize, and process more data in a single request.

*Data based on a 95-participant internal study comparing manual entry against Fill with Gemini on a 500-cell task using English prompts for English language users.


Easily audit and verify your Gemini-generated data in Google Sheets using the new cell-level web source citations.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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Gemini Notebook is now also available as a Connected App in the Gemini app. This new integration allows you to manage and query notebooks directly within your chats using natural language.

You can type @Gemini Notebook in a Gemini chat to quickly create new notebooks, add sources to a notebook, save key notes, or retrieve information from their existing notebooks. Gemini can also automatically detect when to use the Gemini Notebook Connected App for relevant prompts. For example, you can ask Gemini to:

  • Create, edit, or delete a notebook ("Create a Gemini Notebook about solar farm market trends")
  • Add, update, or delete sources in a notebook ("Add a copy of this chat to my notebook about Bio 101 course")
  • List notebooks and their sources (“Show me a list of all the sources in my notebook about US National Parks”)
  • Answer questions using context from your notebook ("What do my Gemini Notebooks say about butterfly migration?")

Getting started

  • Admins: Access to the Gemini Notebook Connected App is ON by default, and is controlled using the Gemini and Gemini Notebook access settings. As an administrator of your organization's Google Accounts, you can control who can use the Gemini Notebook Connected App. The Gemini Notebook Connected App is available to users who are in a group or OU with both Gemini Notebook and Gemini set to On. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Gemini and Gemini Notebook on or off for users.
  • End users: This feature will be ON by default for users globally, except in the European Economic Area, where it will be OFF by default. This feature can be controlled in Settings > Connected Apps in the Gemini app. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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We are introducing the ability to decouple and extract the audio track from video clips directly within Google Vids. By separating audio from video, creators gain granular control over multimedia editing, making it simple to custom-tailor voiceovers, remove distracting background noise, and align tracks across scenes.

Previously, video tracks could only be muted or unmuted as a single entity and were strictly scene-bound. With this update, you can extract a video's audio as a standalone clip that can play under other video tracks or span freely across multiple scenes on your timeline.

Key capabilities include:

  • Single-click extraction: Instantly separate any video clip’s audio track into a standalone audio clip on the timeline.
  • Independent timeline editing: Trim, move, or delete the detached audio track independently of your video footage without disrupting clip timing.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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We are introducing the ability to adjust the playback speed of individual video clips directly within Google Vids. This update gives creators precise control over pacing and scene timing, streamlining video editing so teams can optimize storytelling, improve audience engagement, and deliver polished messages without relying on third-party editing software.

Whether presenting a fast-paced software walkthrough or slowing down technical steps, video speed controls make scene fine-tuning seamless.

Key capabilities include:

  • Speed up footage (up to 2x): Condense long demonstrations, trim visual downtime, and keep audience attention sharp.
  • Slow down playback (down to 0.25x): Emphasize intricate visual moments, highlight key user interface steps, and make technical tutorials easier to follow.

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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Google Vault now supports eDiscovery filtered exports for Gemini in Workspace. This update adds a new data source to our AI compliance capabilities, allowing administrators to filter and export users' Gemini in Workspace conversations across apps like Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Meet in line with the security controls and privacy provisions of Vault:

  • Filter conversations by custodian and date range: Define export scopes by specific user accounts or organizational units (OUs) up to 5,000 users in size, and filter by a specific date range (with time zone selection).
  • Export conversations in a JSON format: Export matching conversation histories via the Vault UI or API. While exported in JSON, the metadata tags align with the GenAI conversation format used in the Gemini app.
  • Include conversation context: Exports include user prompts, AI responses, generated attachments (such as images), and links to referenced Workspace files (such as Drive documents or Gmail threads) and citations.


Google Vault enables customers to govern and export their Google Workspace data from a central tool to meet legal and regulatory obligations. Additional information governance features for Gemini in Workspace, such as retention rules and litigation holds, will follow in future releases.

Additional details

  • Application scope: This update captures Gemini in Workspace conversations created when conversation history is turned on across integrated Workspace apps (Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Meet). 
  • Conversation history settings: Admins can use OU-level conversation history and deletion settings in the Admin console to govern data retention (such as preventing manual conversation deletion by users or configuring automatic deletion after a period of inactivity).
  • UI experience: Admins can start an export directly from the Search tab in Vault by selecting "Gemini in Workspace" from the newly alphabetized service dropdown, entering their filter criteria, and clicking "Export."
  • API support: Support for Vault API users will be available within 14 days of the UI rollout.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Plus
  • Other Editions: Frontline Standard and Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard and Plus
  • Other Add-ons: Vault

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Gemini-powered speech translation in Google Meet will now support 63 languages across web and mobile devices (Android and iOS), with listening support on Google Meet hardware devices.

Previously, speech translation supported a limited set of language pairs and required configuring a single language pair for the entire meeting. With this update, powered by Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, participants can translate speech between any combination of the 63 supported languages in the same meeting with minimal configuration, helping global and distributed teams collaborate more naturally across language barriers.

We’re changing and simplifying how participants use speech translation during a multilingual call:

  • Automatic spoken language detection: Meet automatically detects the language being spoken and translates it into each listener's preferred language in near real-time, even when multiple languages are spoken in the same meeting or when a speaker switches languages.
  • Individual participant controls: Instead of a meeting-wide configuration, participants can independently enable speech translation for themselves using the dedicated translation control in the meeting toolbar, and optionally configure additional languages they already understand so those languages are not translated. 
  • Synchronized automatically translated captions: When speech translation is active, captions provide a consistent reading and listening experience, matching the translated audio.

Please note a few important considerations regarding access and use of this feature:

  • Meeting access and direct calls: Speech translation is available to all meeting participants, including guests from other domains, when the meeting is organized by a user with an eligible Google Workspace or Google AI plan. In direct 1:1 calls, speech translation is available to both participants if either person has an eligible plan.
  • Meeting duration limits: Speech translation is available for up to 90 minutes per meeting for eligible base Workspace and Google AI Pro plans, and up to 8 hours per meeting for AI Expanded Access, AI Ultra Access, and Google AI Ultra plans.
  • Google Meet hardware devices: Participants in conference rooms using Google Meet hardware can listen to translated speech from remote participants, but speech originating from the conference room hardware will not be translated for others.
  • Unsupported scenarios: Speech translation is not available in live streams, meeting recordings, client-side encrypted (CSE) meetings, dial-in or third-party interoperability calls, or when using adaptive audio. Availability is also subject to regional and age restrictions.
  • Privacy and user control: Users choose whether their speech is translated for others and can update their preference at any time in Meet settings. Google does not store voice data or train models on your voice.

Getting started

  • Admins: Speech translation is ON by default for eligible Google Workspace editions (when the Gemini for Meet admin setting is enabled) and can be disabled or enabled at the organizational unit (OU) or group level in the Admin console under Apps > Google Workspace > Google Meet > Gemini settings. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Speech translation on or off for Meet.
  • End users: Speech translation is OFF by default at the start of a meeting and can be enabled by individual participants during a call. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Speech Translation in Google Meet.

Rollout pace

Note: Feature visibility and synchronized captions may vary during the initial rollout. Mobile users will need to update their Google Meet application to ensure access to these new capabilities.

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • Other Editions: Frontline Plus
  • Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education
  • Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access and AI Ultra Access

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Google Sheets now natively supports box and whisker charts, a statistical chart type that shows how a dataset is distributed. Select a range of raw numeric values and Sheets calculates the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, maximum, mean, and outliers for you, with no helper formulas needed. You can choose inclusive or exclusive quartile calculation and show or hide inner points, outliers, mean markers, and mean lines.

Box and whisker support also comes with enhanced Microsoft Excel import compatibility. Previously, importing Excel files containing box and whisker charts into Sheets would drop the chart entirely. Now, these charts are preserved on import with their data references, calculations, and formatting intact, and charts created in Sheets export back to Excel as editable box and whisker charts.



User creating a box and whisker chart in Google Sheets

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Rollout pace

Availability

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

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Docs Live is now rolling out to eligible Workspace users of the Google Docs mobile app on Android and iOS. This new feature acts as a hands-free thought partner and co-writer that helps you build structured, context-aware documents on the fly using natural conversation.

Starting a new document from scratch on a phone can be tricky, but it’s often necessary when ideas are fresh right after a meeting or during a commute. Even if your thoughts are unstructured or you're rambling, Docs Live can reference and pull context from your emails, chats, and Drive files to help you draft project updates, feature proposals, customer pitches, event plans, talk tracks for presentations, and more.


Brainstorm requirements, pull context from Workspace, and generate a structured first draft using your voice in the Google Docs mobile app.

Getting started

  • Admins: This feature will be ON by default for user with Gemini in Docs enabled. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing access to Gemini features in Workspace.
  • End users:
    • Speak naturally and openly: Say what you need and Gemini will help write and polish your ideas right on the page.
    • Be clear about your goal: Are you trying to put together a summary of a meeting or a project proposal based on notes from a recent call? Be clear and prescriptive. Whatever you need, Gemini can help create the right deliverable based on what you tell it.
    • Synthesizes information: Gemini automatically and securely draws from relevant content in your Gmail, Drive, Chat, and the web, meaning the output is personalized and relevant to what you need.
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about generating documents with voice.

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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Gemini Notebook now gives you more creative control over Slide Decks and Video Overviews. Instead of jumping straight to a final output, Gemini Notebook can now walk you through a step-by-step creation flow so you can steer the content further and guide the visual style and format. Get started by asking for a presentation or video in chat or by tapping on "Slide Deck" or "Video" in the Studio panel.

  • Guided customization: In chat, Gemini Notebook suggests relevant focus topics, formats, and visual styles based on your sources. If you already know what you want, you can share specific instructions in your prompt and Gemini Notebook will pre-fill your selections without asking you to repeat yourself.
  • Outline and producer notes review: If you turn on the Review toggle, you can preview the slide deck outline or video producer notes in the Studio panel and give written feedback before generating the final output. 
  • Quick first pass: If you prefer a quick output, you can still have Gemini Notebook generate a Slide Deck or Video Overview right away without the extra review step.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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We’ve introduced a centralized ”customize” hub in the Gemini app, providing a single place to tailor how Gemini responds and connects with your tools. Users can discover apps and add skills to automate repetitive workflows such as adapting to your personal writing style or adhering to specific formatting guidelines. 

Bringing custom skills and connected apps together into a unified space makes it easy to discover and manage how you customize your experience when using Gemini.

The new hub includes:

  • Skills: Configure custom skills and prompt preferences to tackle repetitive tasks, preserve tone and voice, or enforce specific response structures.
  • Connected apps: Add more than 40 external services, as well as Google apps. You choose which apps to connect, and permissions can be audited or disconnected at any time.

Platform & regional availability:

  • The ”customize” menu is rolling out globally across web, mobile, and the Gemini desktop app on Windows and macOS for all user tiers.
  • Most connected apps are currently available in English in the U.S., with select apps available in additional English-speaking regions, Brazil, and India.

Getting started

  • Admins: Connected apps and third-party tool integrations for Gemini can be reviewed and managed in the Admin console under Apps > Additional Google services > Gemini.
  • End users: In Gemini (web, mobile, or desktop app), open the left navigation menu and select Customize to add skills, explore apps, and manage connected services.

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Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google Accounts.

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We’re introducing a new way to analyze BigQuery data in Google Sheets. After connecting to BigQuery data with Connected Sheets, you can use Gemini to interact and analyze that data conversationally, right in Google Sheets. Gemini queries run against the full dataset in BigQuery, not just what’s visible in your spreadsheet. This means users can now ask questions on, analyze, and create views over super large data sets. Key use cases include:

  • Ask questions in natural language: Ask something like “What were total sales in the Northeast last quarter?” and get an answer based on your complete BigQuery data.
  • Dig deeper with follow-ups: Keep the conversation going with questions like “How does that compare to the same quarter last year?” or “Which products drove the increase?”

Ask Gemini to analyze and pull insights from your largest datasets in BigQuery
  • Go from analysis to dashboard: Describe what you need, such as “Build a quarterly sales review with revenue by region, a monthly trend, and our top 10 products.” Gemini will share its plan for you to review, then build a new spreadsheet tab with native, connected, refreshable objects like database formulas, pivot tables, and charts.

Gemini can create connected charts, pivot tables, and dashboards that are always up to date with scheduled refreshes

For business users, Gemini handles the legwork of completing their end to end analysis, from querying the data to garnering complex and nuanced insights from the data, to laying out the final dashboard for review, allowing them to get their work done faster without ever leaving Google Sheets. For data teams, this means a shorter backlog of one-off requests for reports and data pulls from BigQuery.

Getting started

  • Admins: This feature will be ON by default. There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: This feature will be available by default in spreadsheets connected to BigQuery, for users with permission to query the connected data. To get started, open the Gemini side panel in a connected spreadsheet. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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