Google makes AI assistant Duet available to Workspace users

Google is making the AI ​​assistant Duet AI available to all Workspace users. The feature has been in beta for a while. Duet can, among other things, take notes from meetings, summarize documents and perform application-specific tasks based on artificial intelligence.

Google say that Duet AI will be available to all paying Workspace users. The feature is not free; users in large teams must pay thirty dollars per user per month. Company tells CNBC that it is still considering pricing for small businesses and individual users.

Duet AI is a collective name for dozens of functions within Workspace programs that are powered by artificial intelligence. Google mentions some examples in a blog post, including the function to take notes during a video meeting and send a summary to all participants, or the ability to participate in a meeting yourself on behalf of the user and forward certain pre-written notes. to give. Duet is also the name of all kinds of small functions within, for example, Meet, where the AI ​​can automatically adjust the lighting or sound.

Workspace will also have a built-in chatbot feature in select apps that users can ask questions based on Duet AI. Furthermore, Duet functionality will appear as a separate menu at relevant times, but in other cases it will be a supporting and underlying technology for certain new features in Workspace apps.

Google announced the features in May during the I/O developer conference. The company has had the tools in beta since then. Google promises that Duet will not use employee data to train Google models ‘without permission’.