Google is enhancing Workspace, its competitor to Microsoft 365, by incorporating more artificial intelligence (AI) and additional features into the platform.
Workspace encompasses Google’s Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Meet, Drive, Slides, Calendar, and other widely used tools by workers worldwide.
Google has recently announced the following updates to Workspace:
Google Sheets Introduces New AI Analyst Feature
To assist employees in interpreting data within Google Sheets, Google developed an AI analyst.
The “Help me analyze” AI assistant aids employees in initiating their work, highlights trends they may have overlooked, suggests subsequent actions for more in-depth understanding, and generates interactive charts to depict the data.
Later this year, “Help me analyze” will be added to Sheets.
Users can also create visual “heatmaps” and charts with a new feature in Sheets that Google has recently introduced. This feature allows for the generation of “deeper” insights regarding trends or patterns among various data points.
A marketing manager evaluating a retail advertising campaign, for instance, can request that Gemini generate insights and develop a chart of the top three marketing channels by conversion rate, as per Google. Gemini is capable of producing the report, as well as visuals such as distribution plots for examining channel performance.
Gemini app provides access to deep research
Deep Research, driven by Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, is now available to users of Workspace via the Gemini app.
Deep Research serves as a personal research assistant, streamlining the tasks of collecting, analyzing, and summarizing online data. It can assist with preparing research prior to a client meeting.
It produces detailed reports that include links to sources, and users can inquire about the findings. You can export these reports to Google Docs and share them with your colleagues.
Deep Research can be utilized for market analysis, product comparisons, academic research, and various other applications.
Google’s most advanced AI model so far is Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental.
Google Drive will provide video transcripts
In the previous year, Google Drive acquired the functionality to automatically create captions for videos that are uploaded. Google is now incorporating video transcripts into videos stored in Google Drive. Users can now access and search transcripts, which are displayed in a side bar adjacent to the video player. It marks the text as it is being articulated.
This feature simplifies the process of locating particular moments in videos.
NotebookLM wird in Google Docs integriert
Google is incorporating its well-liked audio overview tool, NotebookLM, into Google Docs.
NotebookLM converts any documents into a podcast generated by AI with two participants. NotebookLM can produce either complete audio versions of documents in Docs or convert them into podcasts.
In the next few weeks, the capability will be coming.
Google Expands Language Support in Docs, Gmail, and Meet
The AI-driven “Help me write” functionality of Docs is compatible with English, French, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German.
Gmail offers email writing assistance in eight languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Italian, French, and German.
Google Meet, Google’s video conferencing platform, is expanding its language options for note-taking. It can be found in the following languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.
