If you or your company pay for Workspace, you may have noticed Google’s AI integration with apps like Docs, Sheets, and Drive. The company has been pushing Gemini in its products since their big rebrand from “Bard” back in February, and it appears that train isn’t stopping anytime soon: Starting this week, you’ll now have access to Gemini via a sidebar panel in some of Google’s most-used Workspace apps.
Google announced the change in a blog post on Monday, stating that Gemini’s new side panel would be available in Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, and Gmail—the latter of which the company announced in a separate post. The side panel sits to the right of the window, and can be called up at any time from the blue Gemini button when working in these apps.
Google says the side panel uses Gemini 1.5 Pro, the LLM the company rolled out back in February, equipped with a “longer …