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We are introducing a significant enhancement to Gmail’s storage and delivery capabilities for Enterprise Plus customers. To support seamless collaboration and high-fidelity file sharing, we are increasing the file size limits for both sending and receiving emails.

  • Sending larger files: Users can now attach files up to 50MB directly to an email (doubling the previous 25MB limit). This allows users to send large presentations, comprehensive spreadsheets, and high-resolution PDFs as direct attachments without needing to upload them to Google Drive first.
  • Receiving larger files: We are increasing the total incoming message size limit to 70MB to also support large messages and attachments. This ensures that your organization can successfully receive larger emails from external senders, improving interoperability with other email platforms.
We know that today's workflows often involve sharing data-rich files. This new update compliments our existing functionality that allows users to upload to Google Drive and share a link. While Drive is excellent for collaboration, sometimes a direct attachment is the preferred method for external partners, clients, or regulatory workflows.

This update directly addresses two key areas of friction by:

  • Streamlining workflow: Users can now simply drag and drop files up to 50MB into their draft window. This reduces context switching and saves time when sharing final versions of documents.
  • Improving interoperability: Users who collaborate with partners who are unable to use Drive can now leverage attachments for these larger files, ensuring these critical communications are available regardless of the recipient.
This feature is admin configurable, giving admins more control over your organization's bandwidth and storage policies.

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  • Google Workspace Enterprise Plus

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Google Vids is thrilled to announce that AI avatars and voiceovers now support more than just English. Users can now provide input in seven additional languages: French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Japanese. The specific details of each feature are outlined below.

AI avatars

AI avatars in Google Vids enable simple generation of high-quality speakers, preferred five times more often than those on other platforms. Today we’re excited to announce that avatars, previously available only in English, can speak seven additional languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Korean, and Japanese.

Anyone can create an avatar video in minutes, saving on both cost and time. Use avatars in scenarios like:

    1. Pitch global clients: Introduce new features to global clients with avatars in their native language.
    2. Educate a global workforce: Update global employees about a new training requirement in Q1.
Avatar generation in Google Vids

AI voiceovers

AI Voiceovers in Google Vids allow users to generate realistic narration for their videos by selecting from a range of different presets. Instead of recording their own voice, users can type a script and the feature will return a high-quality voiceover.

Just like avatars, AI voiceovers are now available in seven new languages (in addition to English): Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Korean, and Japanese.

AI voiceover generation in Google Vids

Note: If the script contains multi-language script input, the feature will return a voiceover in the supported language that’s used most in the script.

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about AI avatars and voiceovers.

Note: Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher usage limits of Veo 3.1 avatars in Vids, allowing users to experiment with these features. Per-user usage limits will apply afterward; we’ll provide more information in a future update prior to any changes.

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Availability

  • Business Starter **, Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Starter **, Standard and Plus
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Nonprofits**
  • [Voiceovers only] Education Fundamentals and Standard
  • Education Plus and Teaching and Learning add-on**
  • Google AI Pro for Education add-on
  • [Voiceovers only] Users with personal Google accounts
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra
**For a limited time, at least through May 31, 2026, Business Starter, Enterprise Starter, Nonprofit, Education Plus, and Teaching and Learning add-on accounts can access generative AI features in Vids. Learn about Google Vids availability.

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AI avatars in Google Vids provide a fast, cost-effective way to generate high-quality digital speakers. While photorealistic avatars are ideal for formal business, we are introducing new 2D and 3D cartoon-styled avatars that utilize expressive, stylized features to enhance emotional resonance and create a more approachable, universally engaging experience.

  New 2D cartoon stylized avatars

  New 3D cartoon stylized avatars

Why use cartoon avatars?

Previously, users in educational or casual settings were limited to professional, photorealistic options. These new styles allow you to:

  • Increase Engagement: Keep students focused on educational assignments, such as explaining complex math concepts.
  • Lighten the Tone: Use "fun recaps" to summarize project results with a more approachable, lighthearted character.
  • Broaden Your Reach: Connect with diverse audiences across different age groups and backgrounds.

Getting started

  • Admins: No action required; there is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: Access these new styles directly in the Vids avatar panel. For more details, visit the Help Center.
Note: Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher usage limits of Veo 3.1 avatars in Vids, allowing users to experiment with these features. Per-user usage limits will apply afterward; we’ll provide more information in a future update prior to any changes.

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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Last year, we announced proactive Gemini-generated insights in Forms for short answer and paragraph questions helping form creators summarize responses to longer questions and quickly understand sentiment and feedback.

Today, we are enhancing that experience to show quantitative insights about percentage and count of responses across different themes in text responses. This feature leverages AI function in Sheets to categorize responses to quickly get deeper and more actionable insights.

Gemini shows percentage of different themes in responses to a text question in a market research survey

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: Form editors will see an option to “Show theme percentages” for text responses in their Google Forms. When a user clicks on “Show theme percentages", Gemini will categorize responses into themes. The form editor can view the count of text responses in different themes and view a chart to show the percentage of responses across the different themes. Visit the Help Center to learn more about summarizing and analyzing form responses with Gemini.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business Standard and Plus

  • Enterprise Standard and Plus

  • AI Ultra Access

  • AI Expanded Access

  • Google AI Pro for Education

  • Google One AI Pro

  • Google One AI Ultra

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On Chrome on your computer, you can now save PDFs directly to Drive without leaving the page, and easily get back to them later in the “Saved from Chrome” folder. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

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

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