GoKawiilGmail users, Google has an AI Inbox coming your way. It's just one part of a sweeping infusion of Gemini-powered AI features for the widely used email service.
The new AI Inbox view will provide a snapshot of what Gemini judges to be your most important emails without your having to sift through them all.
Google has been force-feeding Gemini into products across its lineup, from Google Docs and Sheets to the AI Overviews and AI Mode on search pages. Its hardly alone in its vigorous rollout of generative AI capabilities -- Microsoft has been taking a similar approach in spreading Copilot into Windows and its Microsoft Office services. Meanwhile, top rival OpenAI has been cramming more and more services into ChatGPT, as well as launching its own browser.
In its Thursday announcement of the Gmail updates, Google said it is making some AI features freely available to everyone, and introducing other new features for its paid Google One subscribers. Read on for everything that's coming to your Gmail inbox
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Free AI features on the way
Let's start with the free features that will come to all consumers who have a Gmail account, whether they access through the web, or via iOS or Android.
Suggested replies with personalization: Gmail users are likely familiar with Smart Replies, which appear as suggestions when they're replying to an email. These suggestions have been serviceable but rarely perfect, requiring significant edits. The updated version uses AI smarts to better understand the context of the conversation and to offer suggested replies using your personal style and tone.
AI Overviews (thread summaries): These aren't the AI Overviews that took over the top of your Google search, but summarizations of email threads meant to show you what's most important from the conversation without you having to read every single reply.
Help Me Write: Help Me Write lets you draft an entire email using a single prompt to Gemini, which could come in handy when there's a lot of specificity that needs to be relayed and you need help finding the words.
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