Recently, Google has integrated its Gemini AI into various services via a sidebar, a subtle approach to attract users to its paid offerings. This artificial intelligence, already present in Google Docs or Sheets, is now extending to Gmail. Although this integration is recent, the company is developing it rapidly with the addition of new features to make email writing even more efficient.
In Gmail, Gemini has introduced the “Help me write” tool, designed to assist users in creating their emails. Google has recently announced the addition of two new functions to this tool: “Polish” and “Refine my draft”. These allow for more precise reworking of email drafts. They offer options to formalize, elaborate or shorten the content, in a very simple way.
Gmail Gets Two New AI Features to Improve Email Drafting
The “Polish” feature allows raw drafts to be transformed into polished texts. For example, if a user types “I’ll be late for the meeting”, the “Formalize” option could rephrase this as “I inform you that I will be late for our meeting”. The “Elaborate” option could develop this message by adding details like “I’m stuck in traffic and should arrive 15 minutes late”. The “Shorten” option would reduce a longer paragraph to the essentials for concise communication. The “Refine my draft” shortcut automatically appears after a draft reaches 12 words and immediately offers these options to refine the text.
These new features are enabled by default for Google paid subscribers. They are accessible to Google Workspace users with Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education modules, as well as to Google One AI Premium users. This deployment shows how the company is enriching its AI services to offer increasingly efficient tools, but reserved for those who subscribe to its premium offerings. With these additions, the company continues to improve Gmail and soon make the long and tedious writing of emails obsolete.
Source : Google
