Tech Desk 
Aug 30, 2024
Gmail has integrated Gemini to offer users on Android devices to chat directly with Google’s artificial intelligence assistant about their emails in the app.
Alphabet-owned Google launched a new feature — Gmail Q&A on August 29. With Gmail Q&A, users can access Google Gemini in the Gmail app as a personal assistant that can read your entire email inbox.
Google said that you can give prompts to Gemini to summarise emails by stating things like, “Catch me up on the emails about quarterly planning.” Additionally, you can use the feature to search for particular details, like asking Gemini, “How much did the company spend on the last marketing event?”
However, if you are required to search for information in your Gmail, you could use the search bar at the top of Google. That’s not going away, but the Gemini button will be added next to the search bar. This is all part of Google’s paradigm shift away from search and toward AI chat.
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Paying users can access the feature by tapping the black star logo, which has come to represent Gemini across Google’s product suite, in the top-right corner of the app. Currently, the Gmail Q&A feature only has access to your emails, while Google claimed it will connect to files in your Drive account soon.
It’s unlikely that Gmail Q&A will come to free Gmail users anytime soon. Google is set to push features like Gmail Q&A to convince users that the expensive monthly subscription costs for Gemini are worth it.
In addition, the company is integrating Gemini into all of its existing products, including Google Docs, Gmail, Google Calendar and more — but it all comes at a price.
