Sources: workspace.google.com/blog (1), workspace.google.com/blog (2)

While you’re focused on innovation and growing your business, the Google Workspace team is continuously enhancing tools and features to boost your team’s productivity and collaboration. In the latest Workspace update, four standout features make research and analysis easier than ever:

Google Sheets: New powerful AI-powered analytics tools, including chart creation and getting insights in the Sheets sidebar
NotebookLM: Your new favorite research assistant, now part of Workspace
Google Drive: Find the right moment with video transcription search
Gemini Deep Research: Advanced multi-step research capabilities are now available in the Gemini app

Get insights faster with AI in Sheets

To help you get insights faster, Gemini in Google Sheets uses new powerful AI capabilities based on advanced multi-step code generation. With these capabilities, Gemini can now generate deeper insights about contextual trends, patterns, or correlations between different variables in your data. And to help you visualize these advanced insights, AI can also generate advanced chart types, such as heatmaps, that go beyond the standard charts in Sheets.

A few examples:

A marketing manager analyzing campaign performance can ask Gemini: “provide insights and create a chart on the top three most effective channels by conversion rate.” AI will provide detailed information with supporting visualizations, such as distribution charts and heatmaps, to highlight channel performance.
A small business owner managing cash flow can proactively identify potential problems by writing to Gemini: “Forecast my net income for the next quarter based on historical data.”
A financial analyst researching stock trends can ask Gemini: “identify any anomalies in inventory levels for product X” to identify potential supply chain issues or unusual demand patterns.

Use Gemini in Sheets to identify trends and gain valuable insights from your data.

Ask Gemini in Sheets to visualize data using advanced chart types, such as heatmaps.

The Google Workspace team is also releasing improvements that significantly improve the performance of everyday actions in Sheets:

Copying data between spreadsheets is now 50% faster, which significantly speeds up the workflow.
Filter menus load 50% faster for large datasets with many unique values, which significantly improves the data exploration process.
Access your data faster — existing spreadsheets now open up to 30% faster.

NotebookLM becomes a full-fledged service in the Google Workspace ecosystem

NotebookLM is an AI-powered research assistant that helps your teams speed up learning and unlock more ideas. Relying on sources provided by your organization — documents, PDFs, Google Drive files, videos, audio recordings, etc. — NotebookLM becomes an expert in the field of data, allowing employees to generate ideas and create a centralized knowledge hub. This helps teams stay up-to-date with the latest information, accelerating learning with AI-generated podcasts.

People can also get information on the go with audio overviews, podcast-like conversations with AI hosts that highlight key findings.

NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus are now included as core services for Workspace Business and Enterprise customers. All sources you upload, including the ideas and prompts that teams use in your notebook, are subject to the Google Workspace Terms of Service. As a core service, NotebookLM will have the same enterprise-grade data protection and level of technical support as other core Workspace apps.

Delve into the topic with NotebookLM, and then create an audio overview.

Drive will help you find the information you need in videos

Last year Google announced that you can automatically generate captions for any video uploaded to Google Drive, improving video accessibility and saving the effort of creating captions manually. Building on this feature, the Google Workspace team is introducing video transcripts to make it easier to find and reference useful information in your video content stored on Drive.

Now you can view transcripts and search for words in your videos. The transcript appears in a sidebar next to the video player and highlights the text that is currently being spoken. This update makes it easy to find specific moments, follow along with the content, or jump directly to the part of the video you need.

Search Drive transcripts for keywords and phrases.

Gemini Deep Research is now available to Workspace users

Starting research on a new topic can be difficult. The Internet is a vast sea of information, and it’s not always easy to separate the useful from the useless, especially if you’re researching a concept for the first time.

Gemini Deep Research, now fully rolled out to customers, explores complex topics and presents its findings in a comprehensive, easy-to-read report, giving you hours of research in minutes. Delve into industry trends, understand the competitive landscape, research customers before a sales meeting, or even get help as a teacher in planning curriculum and lessons.

How it works

You set the direction

Whether you want to explore a new concept or delve into details, Deep Research creates a customized research plan to track down the right information. It starts with the general context and then narrows down to the details to give you a complete picture of any topic.

And, like any good research assistant, Gemini is open to development and collaboration. You can accept the research plan as is or make changes to customize its search strategy.

Smart search for better sources

Gemini’s search queries evolve as it learns more about the topic, just as you might change keywords after reading a few results. With each search, Gemini focuses even more on what it’s looking for.

Deep Research uses Google’s time-tested search algorithm to find high-quality sources from reliable sites, helping you find great sources on the web that you might not have found on your own. And each source is linked as a citation in the report, so you can click on it, check the source, and read more. Want to delve deeper? Gemini can run more searches and update its report with additional information on topics of interest to you.

Still have questions? Just ask.

Deep Research doesn’t consider the job done after the first report. Gemini can answer questions about what it found and modify its report based on your feedback. If you need more details on a subtopic or just want to delve into an interesting topic, Gemini will help you.

The first round of research often leads to new questions — and Gemini can help with those too. Start a new search on a related topic or ask clarifying questions in chat. If Gemini can’t answer your question right away, it will do additional research to find what you need.

A powerful research assistant at your fingertips

Deep Research makes it easier for you to find the information you need from high-quality sources with a single query. Export your report to Docs to share with the whole team, or return to the conversation with Gemini when curiosity strikes.

Whether you’re delving into new industry trends, literature review, or competitive analysis, Gemini can help you create a well-researched report in record time. It offers powerful, prepared research at your fingertips, and also offers a glimpse into how Gemini continues to become more agentive, performing complex tasks on your behalf.