Google simply launched two new options for its Gemini AI assistant: Canvas and Audio Overviews.
Canvas introduces a devoted workspace inside Gemini the place customers can create and refine each paperwork and code in real-time. Users can spin up preliminary drafts after which work with Gemini to edit particular sections, regulate tone, or reformat content material as wanted.
For coding tasks, Canvas features a stay preview alongside the code so customers can iteratively edit whereas watching it evolve as you make the modifications.
The second characteristic, Audio Overview, converts written supplies (like paperwork or slides) right into a “podcast-style dialogue between two AI hosts.” This performance was beforehand obtainable in Google’s NotebookLM. (The group liable for creating NotebookLM left in December to launch their very own startup).
Both options are rolling out globally right now for Gemini and Gemini Advanced subscribers, although Audio Overview is at present solely obtainable in English, with extra language assist deliberate, the corporate stated in a weblog put up on Tuesday.
AI rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI have comparable options — referred to as Projects and Canvas respectively. The naming conventions for these options have gotten aggressive as nicely. Google launched a characteristic referred to as Deep Research, the place AI conducts analysis on a subject for you, in December. Then, OpenAI launched the same characteristic with the identical identify in February. In October, OpenAI launched a characteristic for writing and coding tasks referred to as Canvas. Now, Google is releasing the identical characteristic beneath the identical identify too.
