Google debuts ‘workspace intelligence’ to power AI agents across gmail, docs, chat
Google has introduced “Workspace intelligence” at its Cloud Next ‘26 conference on Wednesday, April 22.
This new feature aims at connecting emails, chats, files, and projects across Google Workspace for AI-powered context.
With this intelligence, Google will sync data across Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive, and Chat, enabling Gemini-powered agents to assess what a user is trying to accomplish.
“Ask Gemini in Google Chat” is one of the components, which functions as an integrated command line that facilitates work.
It enables users to ask for briefings for the day, create documents and presentations, get files from descriptions, and even book meetings, all through Chat itself. This feature works seamlessly with other applications such as Asana, Jira, and Salesforce.
Other significant updates are natural-language spreadsheet building in Sheets, infographic generation in Docs embedded with business data, and one-pass slide deck creation in Slides with the help of company templates.
While introducing the new sync system, Google also stressed data security. The officials confirmed that Workspace Intelligence operates using infrastructure that is compliant and does not use customer data for advertisements or machine learning without their consent.
The deployment includes administrative controls, client-side encryption, and sovereign data control capabilities for both the US and EU.
Additionally, the company also announced its eighth-generation TPU chips.
The new chips provide 2.8x better price-performance and the TPU 8i for inference, offering 80% better performance-per-dollar.
The series of new features is not completed yet, and the company is expected to roll out more in future.
