Gemini will turn your Google Chat into a neat summary

If you step away from your computer or phone for a few minutes, you may return to a flood of notifications about new messages. If you use Google Chat, you no longer have to scroll through them all to find out what you missed, thanks to Google’s Gemini AI assistant. You can summon Gemini from the Google Chat sidebar and ask the AI ​​to summarize the conversation and dive into the most important bits.

The new feature extends Gemini’s presence from other Google Workspace applications such as Docs and Drive to Google Chat. Clicking the “Ask Gemini” icon at the top of the Google Chat interface will bring up a chat window for the AI ​​where you can ask what was said in group chats, direct messages, and rooms.

Asking the AI ​​to ‘catch up with me’ will give you a full summary of the conversation, which you can request in bulleted form. If it is too short, you can also request a longer summary. You can also ask for more specific details, such as any help requests, key insights, or other decisions made in the thread. You can even ask questions about others’ tasks or what someone said about specific topics. The demo below shows how it works.

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