Subvolts take Google details how Gemini now powers Workspace apps, making creation faster and smarter. Mar 12, 2026 - Developers
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- Discover how your everyday Google apps are becoming smarter with AI to help you work more efficiently.
This episode features a Google VP discussing firsthand how Gemini is integrated into core productivity tools.
Gemini in Workspace: New Ways to Create Faster
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Google Workspace VP Chandu Thota joins Logan Kilpatrick on Google AI: Release Notes to discuss the new Gemini experience in Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. The episode explores how Gemini uses information from files, emails, and the web to assist users. It covers Gemini's capabilities, rollout, privacy, and the future of AI integration within Workspace applications.
Google's AI, Gemini, is now helping inside apps like Docs and Sheets. It can read your files and emails to help you write, organize data, and make presentations faster. This makes your work tools smarter and more helpful.
This episode offers a firsthand look at how Google is integrating its Gemini AI into core productivity tools. Listeners will learn about practical applications for document creation, data analysis, and presentations, and understand Google's approach to user data and AI trust. It's for business users and anyone interested in how major AI labs are embedding AI into everyday software, mirroring efforts across the industry to make AI assistants more capable and integrated.
- HostLogan Kilpatrick
- GuestChandu ThotaVP of Engineering, Google Workspace
- Guest: Chandu Thota, VP of Engineering, Google Workspace
- Title: Gemini in Workspace: New Ways to Create Faster
- Show: Google AI: Release Notes
- Length: 40 minutes
- Topics Covered: Gemini in Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Calendar, AI Overviews, Google Vids, Vibe coding, Apps Script
Chapters:
1:15 - Gemini in Docs
3:17 - Which models power Workspace
3:45 - AI Overviews in Drive
5:22 - Rollout and availability
6:33 - Reimagining every Workspace canvas
8:58 - Gemini in Calendar
9:50 - The future of the side panel
11:16 - A new way to work
13:18 - AI-powered slide generation
15:08 - User data and privacy
19:07 - Balancing AI innovation and user trust
22:04 - The power of Google Vids
24:42 - The journey to deep canvas integration
28:32 - Vibe coding meets Apps Script
32:42 - AI as a tool for thinking
- AI Overviews
- Chandu Thota
- Summaries or quick answers generated by AI from your documents.
- Vibe coding
- Chandu Thota
- A method for generating code using natural language prompts.
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Questions people ask
- What is new with Gemini in Google Workspace?
- Gemini can now pull information from your files, emails, and the web to help you create content faster within Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive.
- What are the privacy implications of Gemini in Workspace?
- The episode discusses balancing AI innovation with user trust and addresses user data and privacy concerns related to Gemini's integration.
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