Gemini in the side panel of Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Google Drive is rolling out now
Gemini is now generally available in the side panel of Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. Through the side panel, Gemini can assist you with summarizing, analyzing, and generating content by utilizing insights gathered from your emails, documents, and more—all without switching applications or tabs. The updated interface automatically summarizes the content you're working on and provides contextually relevant prompts to help you get started. Google is also introducing Gemini in the Gmail side panel, which you can leverage to summarize email threads, draft an email, suggest responses to an email thread, and more.
Improved syncing experience between Google Calendar and third-party calendars
Google is introducing an improved email notification experience for those who are using third-party calendar services—like Outlook—to collaborate with Google Calendar users. Specifically, this update improves the accuracy of Google Calendar event syncing across calendar services, while helping cut down on the amount of email noise caused by calendar sync notifications.
Generative AI has the potential to help students, educators and education communities save time, create captivating learning experiences, inspire creativity, and learn with confidence. Google recently brought Gemini for Google Workspace to education communities with two new paid add-ons and announced its commitment to add more data protections for schools using Gemini, free of charge. Now Google is sharing several updates, including bringing Gemini to teen students and new features to help educators create great learning experiences.
Google Meet adds 52 new languages to translated captions and 11 more languages for closed captions
For all Workspace customers and users with personal accounts, Google has expanded support for closed captioning to new languages in beta, bringing the total language count to 87. For Gemini for Workspace customers, Google is adding 52 languages to translated captions with full language support, which means these languages can be translated to and from any other fully supported language. Google is also launching full language support to 6 previously launched languages. Translated captions now fully support 69 languages which allows for over 4,600 language pairs.
Introducing Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ for Google Workspace
Currently, Google Workspace admins can turn Colab on for their users, allowing them to access the free version of Colab. Now, there are Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ standalone subscriptions for Google Workspace customers. Colab Pro offers 100 compute units that grant access to additional powerful GPUs, memory, features, and productivity enhancements enabled with AI assistance. Colab Pro+ gives you all the benefits of Colab Pro, plus an additional 400 compute units for a total of 500 per month that grant access to additional powerful GPUs, along with background execution.