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Earlier this year we introduced Sheets canvas, which uses Gemini to turn spreadsheet data into interactive mini-apps like dashboards, kanban boards, and calendars. Starting today, you can publish a Sheets canvas directly to its own link, granting others read-only access to interact with the mini-app without sharing the full source spreadsheet. The published link is separate from the spreadsheet URL and has its own audience setting, so you can publish a canvas to your whole organization even if the file itself is shared with a smaller group.

For example:

  • An events coordinator can publish a conference agenda as a filterable schedule for hundreds of attendees while only the planning team edits the source sheet.
  • A program manager can publish a launch timeline from the team's tracker, giving stakeholders across the company a live view of milestones without edit access to the spreadsheet.
  • A learning and development lead can publish a course calendar so anyone in the company can see upcoming sessions, while the training team manages the data source.

You can only publish a Sheets canvas that you have edit access to. To publish, click the  icon in the canvas toolbar, then click the “Publish canvas” option. A user can also choose between automatically republishing the canvas whenever changes are made to the source sheet or publishing a static view based on the current state of the data. From the same  icon, you can copy the link, change the audience, or stop publishing at any time. Publishing is currently available in Sheets on the web.



Publishing a Sheets canvas from the  icon in the canvas toolbar, then opening the published link from an account without access to the spreadsheet

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
  • AI Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

Note: Creating and editing Sheets canvases is subject to per-user usage limits. See the Help Center for more information.

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You can now use numbered lists and nested lists in your Google Chat messages. Numbered lists work well for step-by-step instructions, rankings, and agendas. Nested lists let you break a main point into smaller details, which helps for meeting notes, project plans, and status updates.

You can mix bulleted and numbered lists in the same message and nest items up to five levels deep. Start a numbered list from the formatting toolbar or by typing "1." at the start of a line. Lists can be created in Google Chat on the web and will display for everyone in the conversation on web, Android, and iOS. Support for creating lists on Android and iOS will 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 about formatting messages in Google Chat.
  • Developers: Chat apps can send numbered and nested lists using standard Markdown syntax through the Google Chat API. Visit the Google Chat API documentation 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 expanding the availability of some Gemini in Gmail features to more Google Workspace users aged 18 and older. Previously available to consumer accounts and specific Workspace editions, these tools are now being brought to the core Workspace experience by expanding availability to all Workspace users 18 years and older to help users with a school or work account manage their communications more efficiently.

Specifically, eligible users will now have access to:

  • AI Overview conversation summaries: AI Overview at the top of long email threads synthesize key points and replies in the conversation.
  • Help me write (non-personalized): Generate complete email drafts or refine existing text based on simple prompts, such as "Draft a professional follow-up and thank-you for the interview.

Managing an overflowing inbox and composing refined replies can be a significant hurdle for educators, students, and professionals. These features act as an intelligent assistant, removing the friction of manual sorting and drafting.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts who are 18 years or older and have smart features in Gmail enabled.

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With help from Gemini, we’re making it easier than ever to schedule meetings directly from conversations in Google Chat.

When someone in a Chat conversation with up to five members suggests finding a time to meet, using a phrase such as “Are you free tomorrow afternoon to go over the proposal?” or “Let’s grab 15 minutes to discuss this in person”, Gemini automatically detects the intent to schedule a meeting, and underlines the relevant text. Hovering over the underlined text reveals a scheduling card that includes:

  • Suggested times: Up to three meeting times based on Google Calendar availability, with any conflicts clearly flagged.
  • Attendees: Guests are filled in from the conversation, including people mentioned by name.
  • Suggested meeting title: A suggested title based on the context of the conversation, which you can edit directly in the card.

Simply select a time and and click Schedule to create the meeting in a single click. A confirmation appears in the conversation, so everyone knows the meeting is booked. If you need to configure additional details, click Open in Calendar to finish scheduling the meeting.




Hover over the underlined text in a message to see suggested times, attendees, and a meeting title, then schedule the meeting in one click.


By helping you schedule meetings without breaking the flow of conversation, this feature enhances team collaboration and reduces context switching while streamlining one of the most common tasks in Google Chat. Some things to note:

  • At launch, this feature is available in Google Chat on the web (chat.google.com and Chat in Gmail) in English.
  • Suggestions appear in direct messages and in small group conversations with up to 5 participants.
  • To avoid being disruptive, Gemini only underlines messages with a clear request to set up a new meeting. 

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Other Editions: Frontline Plus
  • Other Add-ons: AI Ultra Access

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To give teams greater control over the timing and pacing of their automated workflows, we are introducing a new “Wait until” step in Google Workspace Studio flows. With this new flow control step, users can pause a flow at any point in its execution—including inside conditional branches (Check if) and loops (Repeat for each)—and automatically resume it at a specified future date and time or after a set duration (up to 14 days). 

Previously, multi-stage workflows that required time delays—such as sending a follow-up email a few days after a customer meeting, spacing out onboarding reminders, or waiting until Monday morning to post a team digest in Google Chat—had to be split across separate scheduled flows. The Wait until step lets you build and manage these end-to-end sequences within a single flow without writing code.



When adding a Wait until step to a flow, you can configure how long the flow should pause with several modes:

  • Specific day next week: Continue next Monday at 8AM—ideal for deferring non-urgent notifications or weekly follow-ups until the start of the next workweek.
  • Specific day and time: Wait 3 days before following-up at 5PM—making it easy to schedule multi-day email sequences, task reminders, and deadline check-ins.
  • After a set duration: Pause the flow for 30 minutes—or any combo of hours, minutes, and seconds (up to 14 days total) before automatically continuing to the next step.

While a flow is paused, you can monitor its real-time progress in the Workspace Studio Activity tab, which logs the scheduled resume timestamp and time zone (for example, “Waiting until {datetime}” and “Flow resumed on {datetime}”).

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
  • Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning
  • Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

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Following our initial announcement and recent rollout update, skills in Google Workspace — reusable, custom instructions that guide Gemini to apply your team’s rules, templates, and reference files — are now rolling out across Google Workspace Studio and Workspace apps. Here’s how to get started:

  • Create, test, and share skills in Google Workspace Studio and Google Docs: Build skills from scratch, start from new turnkey templates, or edit Markdown-native (SKILL.md) files directly in Google Workspace Studio, and test how they generate email drafts, documents, or presentations before turning them on. You can also draft and collaborate on skills in Google Docs, and share copies of your skills from Workspace Studio so teammates can customize and enable them for their own workflows.
  • Create and edit skills in context across Workspace apps: You can prompt Gemini directly in Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drive, and Google Chat to create, refine, and test skills without leaving the app you’re working in.
  • Use skills automatically or with an @, and connect them to Studio flows: Once you turn on a skill, Gemini in Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drive, and Google Chat can automatically recognize when that skill is relevant and apply it to your prompt, or you can invoke one or more skills explicitly at any time with an @mention (including combining multiple skills in a single request). Skills can also trigger Workspace Studio flows configured with a “Start manually” or “On a schedule” starter step.

These capabilities unlock powerful ways to standardize everyday work across your team. For example:

  • A marketing or sales team can maintain approved brand voice, tone, and structure across email drafts in Gmail, proposals in Docs, and pitch decks in Slides.
  • A finance or legal specialist can standardize recurring contract, proposal, or invoice reviews against reference guidelines stored in Google Drive.
  • A project lead can generate recurring status updates grounded in living meeting notes, Chat conversations, and Drive files without re-typing formatting instructions each week.


Create, test, and invoke skills across Google Workspace Studio and Workspace apps

A few things to know for end users:

  • Supported surfaces, mobile access, and language: Creating, editing, testing, and sharing skills are available on the web. Invoking skills is supported on the web in Workspace Studio, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drive, and Google Chat, as well as in the Google Chat mobile app on Android and iOS. Skills in Workspace are not yet available in Google Sheets or Google Meet, and currently support English prompts and instructions only.
  • How skill sharing and Drive file permissions work in Workspace Studio: Sharing a skill from Workspace Studio gives recipients an independent copy that they can review, customize, and turn on in their own skills library (subsequent edits you make to your skill won’t overwrite copies others have already saved). If your skill references Google Drive files, you’ll also need to share access to those files with recipients.
  • Skills in Workspace are separate from skills and Gems in the Gemini app: Skills created in Workspace do not sync automatically with skills or Gems in the Gemini app, and the upcoming automated migration of remaining Gems in 2027 will convert Gems to draft skills exclusively in the Gemini app — not in Workspace Studio or Workspace apps. Because both environments use the open SKILL.md format, you can manually copy instructions between the Gemini app and Workspace if you want to use a skill in both places. 
  • Impact on automated Workspace Studio flows and transitioning off “Ask a Gem”: As previously announced, you can no longer add new Ask a Gem steps to flows in Workspace Studio. Visit the Help Center to learn more about replacing Gems with skills in Workspace Studio flows.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

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

Note that skills in Google Workspace are available only to users age 18 and older.

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We’re making it faster to confirm automatically applied classification labels in Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Previously, files labeled by AI classification or default classification rules only showed a Review button in the top banner. Now, when a single label is automatically applied, users with permission to modify it see Accept and Edit buttons directly in the banner.

Selecting Accept confirms the label in a single click, while Edit opens the Labels side panel to make changes. Users can also confirm the classification from the side panel using the new Accept label button. If multiple labels are automatically applied, the banner continues to show Review so users can check them in the side panel.

Eliminating extra steps removes friction for users, making it easier to confirm automated classifications and maintain accurate label metadata across your organization.



Users can click Accept directly in the banner to confirm a single automatically applied classification label, or click Edit to review it in the Labels side panel.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Education: Education Standard and Plus
  • Other Editions: Frontline Starter, Standard, and Plus; Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits

Note: Default classification is available on all editions listed above. AI classification is available on Enterprise Plus, Frontline Plus, and with the AI Security, or Google AI Pro for Education add-ons. 

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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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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.

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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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