Google rolls out Gemini AI sidebar with email summarizing capability for paying customers.
You get access to the Gemini AI features if you are a paying customer – Gemini AI gets embedded as a sidebar to Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, too. Google is beginning to roll out a new Gemini side panel that can do things like summarize email threads and draft new emails.
According to Google, the tool will provide “proactive prompts” but also allow you to ask “freeform questions,” and it is “built to leverage Google’s most capable models,” such as Gemini 1.5 Pro. Google will also enable Gemini to summarize threads in Gmail mobile apps.
These enhancements may be valuable, but they will only be available to paid Gemini users: you must be a Google Workspace client with the Gemini Business or Enterprise add-on, the Gemini Education or Education Premium add-on, or a Google One AI Premium subscriber. Its a good practice to make sure you’re double-checking any AI generated content before you use it.
Stay tuned!