Gmail's Gemini AI sidebar and email summaries are rolling out now

The new Gemini AI features in Gmail are available to paid Gemini users, including Google Workspace customers with a Gemini Business or Enterprise add-on, Gemini Education or Education Premium add-on, or Google One AI Premium subscribers4. These features aim to streamline email management by summarizing email threads and providing proactive prompts and freeform question assistance5.

The Gemini side panel can perform various functions such as summarizing email threads, drafting new emails, offering proactive prompts, and allowing users to ask freeform questions. It is built to leverage Google's most capable models, like Gemini 1.5 Pro, and provides AI-powered assistance in Google Workspace apps like Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive.

Gmail is introducing a new Gemini side panel that can summarize email threads and draft new emails. It offers proactive prompts and allows users to ask freeform questions. The tool is built to leverage Google's most capable models, such as Gemini 1.5 Pro. Additionally, in the Gmail mobile apps, users can have Gemini summarize threads. These features will be available to paid Gemini users.

Gemini features will be included in additional Google services such as Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive2. These features will be available in the side panel of these apps, enhancing productivity and assisting users with various tasks.

To use Gemini's AI features, you need to be a paid Gemini user, which requires a Google Workspace subscription with a Gemini Business or Enterprise add-on, a Gemini Education or Education Premium add-on, or a Google One AI Premium subscription. These AI features are available on the web and in Gmail's mobile apps.

Gemini 1.5 Pro is a multimodal AI model developed by Google DeepMind, designed to enhance Google's generative AI services and capabilities. It offers improved performance, longer context understanding, and can process text, images, audio, and video inputs. The model uses a multimodal mixture-of-experts (MoE) approach and can handle a large context window of up to 1 million tokens, enabling it to reason and understand larger volumes of data2.

Gmail is expected to introduce a new AI feature called "Contextual Smart Reply." This feature will offer customized response suggestions based on the context of previous emails in a thread. It aims to make email communication faster and more efficient by providing relevant and personalized replies.

Google suggests using the Gemini tool for emails by utilizing its AI capabilities to summarize email threads, draft new emails, and provide proactive prompts. Users can also ask freeform questions and receive suggestions based on Google's most capable models, such as Gemini 1.5 Pro. This feature aims to help users stay on top of their emails more efficiently.