Workspace, the company's collection of collaborative applications and business-focused products, received a number of AI-based updates, according to the company.
Google today unveiled a selection of AI updates for its Workspace collection of office apps and tools for corporate teams to use when working together on a project at its yearly I/O conference.
Google introduced AI, which provides a range of generative AI capabilities for Google's applications for productivity within Workspace and competes with Microsoft's Copilot AI helper. It provides assistance with text creation in Google Docs and Gmail and also support with image development in Slides, a presentation slide application like PowerPoint. Using Google Meet as a platform for video conferencing, it also has the ability to summarize talks.
Through primarily Google Meet and Gmail, Google Workspace provides unified processes, text messaging and voice conversations. The collaborative tools offered by Workspace contain Google Sheets, Forms, Docs and Slides .
Additionally, Google revealed an updated name and purpose for its text-assistant Smart Compose, now known as "Help Me Write." Users can find prose recommendations from it in Google Documents, PowerPoint, Drawings and Sheets. The sole change is that the app is going to be made available on the mobile devices through Gmail.
The spreadsheet application from Google, Sheets, has been updated to incorporate a text field that enables users to generate a spreadsheet according to a written question. A user might, for instance, request information on the leading suppliers in the supply chain for a component needed in the production of a product. With photographs and links of the products, Sheets will offer a spreadsheet containing the vendors.
Another interactive graphic and also data tool that Sheets integrates with is Google Charts. So just like Microsoft Excel, it can also be used for arranging data and also generate pie, bar or other types of charts to illustrate the data.
Additionally, Google touted "Sidekick," a feature that can read, sum up, and respond to inquiries about documents from other Google apps.
The only option for users to gain access to the Workspace AI updates, according to Google, is to join the waiting list of Google Labs. Google referred to the Workspace AI upgrades as "experimental". Google's AI-enhanced Workspace is a platform to increase user productivity and at the same time enabling users to safeguard their models and data.
Generative AI from Google, a leader in the industry, is integrated across Google Workspace to provide a unique customer experience. Workspace, as a tool, delivers a holistic experience where users don't need to search out separate models for identical functionality. This includes AI-based email composing capabilities, document writing, bespoke image creation, and use of built-in models of generative AI.
There is a fierce AI-based battle between Google and Microsoft. Both firms unveiled improvements to their searching engines using artificial intelligence in February. Microsoft emphasized improvements to Bing and Google retaliated by launching an AI version for Search. To provide users with more detailed search results, search engines are incorporating AI.
The Language Model in Dialogue Applications, which is usually called LaMDA as abbreviation, is a system that Google claims is the brain of Bard, an experimental conversational chatbot that was just published.
In a February release, Google disclosed a relationship with and strategic investment in DeepMind, which is an AI rival to Microsoft - heavily sponsored OpenAI, whose technology serves as the foundation for Microsoft's ChatGPT chatbot. DeepMind is a competitor in the field of artificial intelligence.
AWS and IBM have also joined into the fray using their own versions of generative AI technologies, geared toward assisting businesses in designing and fine-tuning large language models to feed their particular operational and commercial needs.
Google made it obvious that it wanted to dominate the discourse about generative AI as well as build revolutionary experiences for both customers and businesses, starting with Android and continuing with Workspace and Business cloud platforms.