Google’s Gemini AI is coming to the sidebar in Docs, Drive, Gmail, and more

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The right sidebar in Google’s Workspace apps is now the center for a lot of Google’s AI plans. The company announced today at its I/O developer conference that it is bringing Gemini 1.5 Pro, its latest mainstream language model, to the sidebar in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, and Gmail. It’ll be the same virtual assistant across all of those apps, and the key bit is that it’ll know about everything you have saved everywhere.

The idea seems to be to use Gemini to connect all the Workspace apps more seamlessly. According to Aparna Pappu, the general manager and VP of Workspace, Google users have long been trying to hack Gemini to do complicated, multi-app things: send an email based on the data they’re looking at in Sheets or add a...

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