Google is beginning to roll out more Gemini AI features to Gmail, including a new AI Inbox. The new Inbox view will give you a snapshot of the most important content from your emails, according to Gemini, so you can get to the good stuff without having to sift through countless emails first.
Gmail's new AI features are a part of Google's larger push to get Gemini into virtually every product the tech giant makes, though you can disable them in settings -- as long as you don't mind losing a few other features along the way.
It's not just Google. OpenAI and Microsoft are taking similar measures -- Microsoft is revamping Copilot as an AI companion, and Open AI has its own AI web browser -- and the industry trends overall are certainly moving in the same direction.
AI Overviews in Gmail Search will allow people to find emails and information using natural language queries. Google
Google is making some AI features freely available to everyone and introducing other new features for its paid Google One subscribers. Read on to learn everything new that's coming to your Gmail inbox.
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 it 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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