“The goal is high-precision, grounded retrieval and outcomes that earn user confidence,” said Machado.
Gemini in Drive and Slides
There are also updates to Google’s Drive storage. In response to user search queries in Drive, AI Overviews provides a list of relevant files alongside a short summary of their contents. For more in-depth questions, it’s possible to create custom file repositories based on specific files and folders, or even Workspace apps, with Ask Gemini in Drive.
The Gemini features in Google Drive are the “sleeper story” of the updates this week, said Mike Leone, practice director, data, analytics & AI, at Omdia. “Turning Drive from passive file storage into something closer to an active knowledge-base could change how people think about their own information,” he said.
