What's new in Google Workspace? April / May
Attention to all innovators and professionals looking to boost their efficiency! At Etixen, as an IT consulting firm, we bring you a summary of the latest Google Workspace features that will transform your day-to-day, read on to learn more!
Your AI assistant now speaks your language (and many more)!
Google continues to expand the availability of NotebookLM, its research assistant, which helps you understand and work with a lot of information more easily and efficiently. In addition to generating summaries and knowledge bases.
Now you can generate audio summaries in more than 50 languages. Ideal for optimizing time and improving productivity!
Update:
- Gradual implementation as of April 29.
Availability:
- Available for Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus and Gemini add-on customers.
Effortless professional presentations! Discover the new sidebar of Google Slides
The new sidebar makes it easier to create presentations and saves time by offering design tools. It includes new features such as pre-formatted content pieces and an expanded library of stock images, along with existing features such as templates, image generation and slide recordings. Creating presentations has never been easier!
Update:
- Gradual implementation as of April 21, 2025.
Availability:
- Available to all Google Workspace customers, individual Workspace subscribers and users with personal Google Accounts (using the "English (United States)" language setting).
Create stunning videos without being an expert! Google Vids expands to more customers
Google Vids, an AI-powered video creation app for work, is now available for Business Starter and Enterprise Starter versions. These customers now have full access to Vids, including AI features for a limited time of 12 months. Vids helps users create videos using Gemini features, such as generating scripts from prompts and creating custom video clips with Veo 2.
Update:
- Gradual implementation as of April 29, 2025.
Availability:
- Available for Business Starter and Enterprise Starter customers (While Vids is available in the user's local language, AI features are currently only available in English).
Clear and direct communication! Gemini summarizes your chats, regardless of language.
By clicking on the direct message groups, you'll find Quickly catch up with direct messages and conversations directly from the home view! The automatic summaries feature powered by Gemini in Google Chat is now available in several additional languages, making it easy to quickly understand conversations, no matter what language the chats are in.
Update:
- Gradual implementation as of April 9, 2025.
Availability:
- Available for Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus customers.
Ask your Files! Gemini intelligence now integrated into Google Drive.
Need to extract key information from a file in Drive? Now you can chat directly with Gemini in the side panel! Simply add your files as a source and get answers directly from your documents - a new way to interact with your information!
Update:
- Gradual implementation as of May 14, 2025.
Availability:
- Available for Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus customers.
At Etixen we're here to help you get the most out of the Google Workspace suite!
You can write to us to learn more about the updates.
