Google Just Overhauled Gmail With Gemini 3, Turning It Into an AI Assistant
Google has integrated its advanced AI model, Gemini 3, directly into Gmail, transforming the service from a passive email client to an active personal assistant. The new AI-powered interface, called "AI Inbox," organizes emails by priority, offers summaries of recent activities, and responds to complex user queries, reducing the need for manual searching. The expanded "Help Me Write" feature, now available to all users, drafts emails with improved tone-matching based on a user's writing style. While most features are free, advanced "Assistant" capabilities—like answering specific questions about inbox contents—require a paid Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription, and "AI Inbox" is currently limited to select testers. The update coincides with the integration of a new image-generation model, now accessible to enterprise customers, enabling fast, on-device image editing across Google Workspace and the Gemini app. Google emphasizes strong privacy protections, stating user data is not used to train public AI models, and has introduced "Temporary Chat" in the Gemini app for private, unsaved conversations. This overhaul comes amid heightened competition with OpenAI and Microsoft.
