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Google’s Generative AI, Duet is here to lend a hand when you use apps in Google Workspace. Duet has just entered general availability and is poised to transform how you work with Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Gmail.

Duet AI’s integration into Google Workspace is such that it’s your digital collaborator. It doesn’t replace you. As the name suggests, it works together with you; simplifying tasks and streamlining your workflow. Its capabilities are nothing short of remarkable, allowing you to harness the power of AI to improve your productivity and efficiency. Here’s a closer look at what Duet AI brings to the table:

1. Summarize with Ease: Imagine being able to instantly generate summaries on topics you’ve saved, like your business’s quarterly performance. Duet AI can do just that. It scours through your Gmail, Docs, Slides, and Sheets to craft comprehensive summaries, saving you precious time.

2. Fact-Checking Made Simple: Duet AI is committed to transparency. When it compiles information, it provides links to the sources, empowering you to fact-check and verify data accuracy. It’s a handy feature that ensures the reliability of your work.

3. Presentation Perfection: Need to create a compelling presentation? Duet AI has you covered. It can generate presentations complete with relevant text, charts, and images sourced from your Drive. This feature streamlines the presentation creation process, making your work more visually engaging.

4. Gmail Assistance: In Gmail, Duet AI builds on the Smart Reply feature. With a click, you can access various options to help you compose emails effortlessly. You can instruct Duet AI to draft messages of specific types, refine tones, make drafts more elaborate or concise, or even opt for some creative fun with the “I’m feeling lucky” option.

5. Smarter Document Creation: Google Docs users will appreciate the AI’s prowess in generating documents. You can instruct Duet AI to craft drafts with different tones, create summaries for sections or entire documents, employ bullet points, or even use custom instructions to fine-tune generated content.

6. User-Friendly Interface: The “help me write” feature in Docs offers access to Smart Canvas features, enhancing your document creation experience.

Google is continuing to commit to transparency and responsible AI usage with Duet AI. The company reassures users that Duet will respect the privacy of their data, ensuring that their inputs and code remain theirs. Any data in private clouds, Google Drive and Google Workspace remain private and aren’t used for training shared models or product development.

While Duet AI is currently available for Google Workspace Enterprise users, Google has plans to roll it out to small- and medium-sized businesses and consumers in the near future. The pricing details for these expanded offerings are yet to be revealed.

Google Chat is getting some big updates that take significant strides to better the user experiences and add interoperability across platforms.

Google Chat will soon be able to Duet you and help you collaborate even better with your coworkers. Duet AI is Google’s real-time collaboration partner is designed to provide users with updates, insights, and proactive suggestions across their Google Workspace apps. It will also be able to handle complex queries and even search through organisational data by searching through messages and files in Gmail and Drive. You won’t be slugging away to summarizing shared documents, and even offering recaps of missed conversations much longer as Duet AI will be able to take over with a simple prompt.

Together with the inclusion of Duet AI, Google Chat is getting a makeover. It will be getting updated colour schemes, typography, and visual styling inline with Google’s Material 3 design language. It will also be getting a little bit more accessible with a unified conversation list that will consolidate direct messages and spaces. Additionally, new shortcuts, including a chronological home view, @mentions, and starred conversations, aim to streamline communication for users.

New Features To Enhance Collaboration

Collaboration is taking centerstage in Google Chat. Google is introducing a bevvy of new features that will allow teams to work seamlessly and collaborate more efficiently.

One of the many changes coming to Google Chat is the integration of Smart Canvas on the chat platform. This will allow teams to collaboration real time and interact seamlessly as if they were in the same room even remotely. The addition of smart chips for quick file sharing directly from the compose bar will also make collaborating a breeze. Accessing relevant conversation threads is also getting easier with in-line threading improvements.

Speaking of real time collaboration, Huddles offers teams a way to communicate in real time through quick-to-join audio and video conversations. Huddles seamlessly integrate meetings into the Chat experience, eliminating the need to switch between platforms. This feature is expected to enter customer preview by the end of the year.

Of course, in many organisation or even when it comes to cross organisational collaboration, compatibility is always an issue. Recognizing that collaboration often spans multiple platforms and tools, Google Chat is partnering with Mio, a collaborative interoperability solutions provider. This collaboration enables messaging interoperability between Google Chat and other platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams.

Scaling your team and collaborating with more parties will now be easier with Google Chat. The limitations on team size on team size is figuratively going away with Google increasing the number of members in spaces to a whopping 500,000 members compared to 8,000 members previously. This will allow larger corporations to manage their workforces through a single space.

Better Search, More Privacy

Google Chat’s search functionality is receiving a revamp. It will feature a redesigned results page and enhanced features such as suggested queries, autocomplete, and AI-based relevance ranking of results. Additionally, an autocorrect feature is being introduced to the suite of AI-powered composition tools, ensuring professional and polished communication.

With Chat being integrated into the Workspace ecosystem, users benefit from built-in protections against spam, phishing, and malware. Real-time data loss prevention warnings and content moderation tools help organizations maintain data security and privacy.

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