Google Gemini just made two of its best features available for free

ZDNET Google went from being a dark horse in the AI space to a frontrunner with its Gemini offerings. To keep up that momentum, Google is announcing a slew of Gemini updates that will enhance the AI assistant's overall experience -- including for free users. Also: AI agents aren't just assistants: How they're changing the future of work today On Thursday, Google announced that it was making two of its most popular features available to all users: Deep Research and Gems. Both of these features will allow users to unlock another level of Gemini assistance, even adding agentic capabilities. Deep Research Deep Research is an agentic feature that can conduct thorough research on your behalf by creating a multi-step research plan, browsing the web extensively for you for a couple of minutes, and then creating a comprehensive report. It is a powerful tool for research because it can complete in-depth research in minutes that could otherwise take users hours. To build on the already powe ... Read full article.