• Google is giving Gemini in Gmail access to your previous emails for tone and style personalization
• Topic contextualization connectors will also pull in relevant information from Workspace
• AI Overviews in Gmail make it easier for you to find old emails more quickly

Google has confirmed a new update to Gmail's Gemini-powered 'Help me write' feature which enables the AI to better match a user's personal writing style.

A new 'Tone and style personalization' feature will analyze a user's previous emails to mimic how they would normally write, while 'Topic contextualization' connects the Gmail tool to other Google Workspace apps to pull in relevant information with less friction.

With this update, the company hopes AI-generated drafts should feel less generic and require less editing before sending, ultimately reducing the amount of time it takes to send an email and freeing workers up to spend time on more meaningful, impactful tasks.

Gmail's AI writer just got even better

In a blog post announcing the news, the company said the update is designed to reduce app-switching and work with short prompts.

Some of the use cases cited by the company include responding to customer inquiries, sharing documents with colleagues and reporting to leadership.

Although the feature is mostly being marketed for workplace use cases, it's not just being made available across Google Workspace plans. As well as Business Starter/Standard/Plus and Enterprise Starter/Standard/Plus, it's also rolling out across Google AI Plus/Pro/Ultra and the AI Pro add-on for Education.

More broadly, it's just another step in Google's ongoing process to make Gemini more of a personal assistant.

Just a couple of weeks ago, the company also announced new AI Overviews within the Gmail experience to make it easier for users to find information by asking natural language questions, rather than having to filter out emails by sender or date.

At the same time, those AI Overviews also expanded across Google Drive for easier information discovery across all content.

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