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. Customers can spin up preliminary drafts after which work with Gemini to edit particular sections, regulate tone, or reformat content material as wanted.
For coding initiatives, Canvas features a dwell 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 out there in Google’s NotebookLM. (The crew liable for creating NotebookLM left in December to launch their very own startup).
Each options are rolling out globally immediately for Gemini and Gemini Superior subscribers, although Audio Overview is at the moment solely out there in English, with extra language assist deliberate, the corporate stated in a weblog publish on Tuesday.
AI opponents like Anthropic and OpenAI have comparable options — referred to as Initiatives and Canvas respectively. The naming conventions for these options have gotten aggressive as nicely. Google launched a characteristic referred to as Deep Analysis, the place AI conducts analysis on a subject for you, in December. Then, OpenAI launched an analogous characteristic with the identical title in February. In October, OpenAI launched a characteristic for writing and coding initiatives referred to as Canvas. Now, Google is releasing the identical characteristic below the identical title too.
