Last year, during the Ignite conference, Microsoft announced Work IQ, an intelligence layer built on data, memory, and inference that connects to organizational and personal data such as SharePoint files, Outlook emails, and Teams meetings. Work IQ is already powering Microsoft 365 Copilot and is now available via APIs, allowing developers to build AI agents targeting specific enterprise scenarios.
At Google Cloud Next today, Google announced Workspace Intelligence, a Work IQ-like intelligence layer for Google Workspace customers. According to Google, it is designed to understand the relationships between content in Workspace apps such as Docs, Slides, Gmail, and Drive, along with active projects, collaborators, and broader organizational knowledge.
Like Work IQ, Workspace Intelligence creates a secure, dynamic knowledge layer that will help Gemini act less like a chatbot and more like a real work assistant that understands the full context of your job.
Google today announced the new "Ask Gemini" feature in Google Chat, which will allow users to describe what they want to achieve in natural language and have Gemini complete the task in the background. Ask Gemini will also provide daily briefings with unread threads and action items, generate Docs and Slides, schedule meetings, and even find files using a description. Gemini can also pull in data from 3rd-party tools such as Asana, Jira, and Salesforce.
Gemini is also receiving improvements in Docs, Sheets, and Slides. In Sheets, users can build or edit spreadsheets with natural language prompts, with Gemini handling multi-step work across files, emails, chat, and web data. In Docs, Gemini can now generate infographics based on business data, edit multiple images for consistency, and even respond to comments or revise documents using comment feedback. In Google Slides, users can create fully editable presentations while following company templates and visual styles.
In Google Drive, AI Overviews and Ask Gemini in Drive are now generally available to help users quickly understand their stored files. The new Drive Projects feature will group relevant files and emails together in one place, so both users and Gemini have better context regarding project work.