Create a workspace that’s future-focused! At Google’s flagship conference Cloud Next 2024, the company announced a tsunami of changes to its widely accepted collaboration suite of apps to simplify workflows and increase productivity.
Speak Your Mind: Gmail users who want to straddle business and pleasure will enjoy the voice functionality for composing emails on their Android phones. You lucky citizens used to worry about whether it was time to type or not. This will never happen again during my lifetime. Just say your message and Google will do the rest. Additionally, the introduction of the “Instant Polish” feature shows how the power of AI can turn prompts and imperfect notes into perfectly organized emails with just one click.
Gemini Goes Chatty: In addition to Google’s AI assistant, Gemini, the company will take Gemini to Google Chat. Users can now use Gemini to get a summary of conversations or answer questions directly within the chat screen, and machine translation for messages is coming very soon.
Smart Spreadsheets and Docs: There comes a smart spreadsheet, which will be called “Table” and its feature is to allow easy organization and formatting of data with virtually no effort. Docs offers tabs in documents to pull information together into one record, and some functions are user-friendly like customized cover images with busy people in mind. Plus, thanks to built-in templates for repetitive tasks like project management and event planning, a spreadsheet creator is no longer necessary specifically for every new project.
Meetings get a new look: Google Meet is ‘one language multilingual life’! “Translate Me” eases the language barrier as the device will automatically turn on translation at the time of captioning. In addition to a planned “Take notes for me” feature, which adds an AI-equipped assistant to take minutes during meetings, the company plans to use the technology in other types of communication.
Enterprise Enhancements: In terms of businesses, Google introduced a new AI fill-in feature for meeting and messaging functions. With this subscription, you can use Chat and Meet within the Gemini Suite, and perform up to 100% of your communication and collaboration functions. Organizations can additionally purchase an “AI Secure” add-on that uses AI to detect and prevent purposeful hacks of any sensitive files on Google Drive.
Specifically, the updates here reflect Google’s effort to use AI to enhance the survival and effectiveness of businesses and users within the workplace.
