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Gemini: Google's everything-connected AI — The Assistants

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The one that lives in your Google account

Google's Gemini shines when your life runs on Google: it can work with Gmail, Drive, Docs, Calendar, Maps and YouTube, and it's built into Android and Workspace apps. It also has a very large context window and strong multimodal skills — photos, video, audio.

Ask "find the flight confirmation in my email and add it to my calendar" and it can actually do it.

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The one that lives in your Google account

Google's Gemini shines when your life runs on Google: it can work with Gmail, Drive, Docs, Calendar, Maps and YouTube, and it's built into Android and Workspace apps. It also has a very large context window and strong multimodal skills — photos, video, audio.

Ask "find the flight confirmation in my email and add it to my calendar" and it can actually do it.

Features worth knowing

  • Gems — custom assistants with saved instructions ("Meal planner for a family of 4, gluten-free").
  • Deep Research — browses many sources and builds a structured, cited report you can export to Docs.
  • Canvas — a side-by-side space for drafting documents and building small apps.
  • Image generation & editing — Google's image model (nicknamed "Nano Banana") is excellent at editing photos while keeping people and objects consistent.
  • Gemini Live — real-time voice, and on phones you can share your camera or screen and talk about what it sees.
  • Bonus: NotebookLM — Google's separate research notebook: upload sources, get grounded answers and even podcast-style audio overviews.

Try it: your inbox, summarized

Look at my Gmail from the past 7 days. List anything that needs a reply or action from me, with the sender, what they need, and any deadline. Skip newsletters and receipts.

Part of 💬 The Assistants in the free AI Bootcamp.