Google’s Gemini AI is getting a bigger role across Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Google is embedding its Gemini AI assistant even more deeply within its Workspace apps. The changes, which are rolling out to Google Workspace and AI plan subscribers, include a new Gemini chat window inside Google Docs, a way to generate entire spreadsheets with AI, and a new Gemini-powered search feature in Drive.

While Google Docs already shows you a few AI writing options alongside your blinking cursor, now you’ll see a Gemini chat window at the bottom of your screen. There, you’ll get the option to describe to Gemini the kind of document you’d like to create, and the AI assistant will use information from the web, Drive, Gmail, and Chat to generate and fully format a draft. You can also ask Gemini to match an existing document’s format, which should save you some time editing the new doc’s style and structure.

Google is making some tweaks to the Gemini-powered editing features in Docs as well. If you’re working on a document with other people, you can now highlight…