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google The company announced Thursday that it is adding more Gemini features to Gmail, offering upgrades such as artificial intelligence-generated summaries of email threads.
The company says the latest update will be rolled out in stages, and some features will be turned on by default in the inbox, so users who don’t want them will need to opt out.
“When you open an email with dozens of replies, Gmail synthesizes the entire conversation into a concise summary of the key points,” Google wrote in a blog post.
The company says it will also add an AI summary to Gmail that will appear at the top of search results.
The update comes as Google incorporates Gemini AI technology into its broader portfolio of consumer products. Google hopes its huge customer base will give it an advantage as it takes on the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic in the fast-growing generative AI market.
According to Google, Gmail currently has more than 3 billion users.
Last year, Google’s Gemini integration with Gmail gave users the ability to search for messages, draft emails from prompts, improve grammar, generate custom responses, and more.
One of the new features is “suggested replies,” which Google says uses the context of a user’s email to create responses in one click. This is an update to an earlier tool called “Smart Reply.” The company is also upgrading proofreading options to check grammar and make messages more concise.
Rapid advances in AI put Google parent Alphabet on top apple The stock rose Wednesday by market capitalization for the first time since 2019, continuing gains that made the stock the best performer among tech megacaps last year. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s private market valuation soared to $500 billion late last year, and Anthropic announced Wednesday that a new funding round valued it at $350 billion.
— CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos contributed to this report.
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