Google Brings Deep Research, Google Meet Transcripts, Adds Languages, & More To Google Workspace

In a slew of announcements, Google revealed a wide range of new features for its diverse set of products and services.

This included enhancements centered around Google Workspace—its suite of cloud computing, productivity, and collaboration tools, products, and services—with most of the updates related to Gemini, Google’s generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) chatbot.

Google said it was launching Deep Research and experimental models to Google Workspace users with access to Gemini Advanced.

Deep Research helps users by researching complex topics on their behalf and presenting it to them in a comprehensive, easy-to-read report. The tool analyzes information from across the web and generates a report of the key findings together with links to original sources, which is continuously refined as it learns.

It helps cut down hours of research time down to a few minutes.

Deep Research can be used across a variety of purposes, spanning personal, business, education, and more. For example, industry research can help users understand emerging trends in industries; competitive research can help users quickly gather analyses of local competitors; customer research can brief salespeople on key information about prospective clients; educational research can help educators with grant writing, lesson planning, class projects, presentations, and more.

Google also announced two new experimental models in Gemini Advanced—2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental and 2.0 Pro Experimental—which is Google’s most advanced reasoning model so far.

Gemini Advanced 1.5 Pro with Deep Research and 2.0 Pro Experimental will be available for Google Workspace Business and Enterprise (Standard, Plus, and add-on), Gemini Education, and Gemini Education Premium add-on users.

Access to 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental will be available to Business, Enterprise, and Frontline Starter and Standard; Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus; Google Workspace for Nonprofits; and Education Standard and Plus.

The move follows similar announcements made by other GenAI industry leaders such as OpenAI, Perplexity, and others.


In August 2024, Google announced its “take notes for me” feature would be rolling out to Google Meet for select Google Workspace customers. This AI-powered feature would automatically take notes, allowing users to focus on discussion, collaboration, and presentation during meetings. 

Building on this, Google is bringing a new “suggested next steps” section that leverages AI to capture the next steps discussed during the meeting, which will automatically be identified and organized within the meeting notes document. Users can review and edit the next steps and follow-ups as needed and assign the task to someone.

Furthermore, Google will also enable meeting notes documents to include citations, or timestamps, which refer to the exact point in the meeting transcript that references the summarized notes.

For example, users will see messages like “Sophie discussed the updated marketing plan (00:08:32).”

Google also said it’s adding seventeen more languages in Gemini that are accessible from the side panel of Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Drive, and Gmail.

The additional languages include Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

“With Gemini in the side panel of your Workspace apps, you can get help summarizing, brainstorming, and generating content by utilizing insights gathered from your emails, documents, and more—all without switching applications or tabs,” said Google.

Google is also making it easier for users to migrate their data from Microsoft Teams channels to Google Chat spaces through a new migration solution from a Workspace partner—CloudM. This includes public and private channel messages, public channel attachments, reactions, and channel members mapped to the corresponding space. 

Google also brought in the general availability of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to Gmail, alongside Drive and Chat. With this, organizations can identify, monitor, and control the sharing of sensitive data. This critical DLP update allows organizations to protect themselves from increasing threats of data exfiltration through unauthorized means.

This feature will also be able to instantly detect sensitive content in outgoing messages, including body content, attachments, headers, and subject lines.


Ahead of these announcements, Google said it will be changing the design and updating the location of some Google Meet meeting controls on Android and iOS devices; extending data region coverage to primary user data for Google Classroom for the U.S. and E.U. data regions; bringing general availability of a feature that allows shared drive managers and My Drive owners to restrict folders to specific users; enabling users to scroll through live captions and translated captions in Google Meet; among other moves.

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