Gemini can now watch Google Drive videos for you

Google’s newest Drive options may give Workspace customers extra details about the movies they’ve saved. A Gemini AI characteristic that summarizes paperwork and PDFs in Google Drive is now expanding to video files, permitting customers to achieve insights about what’s within the video with out having to observe it themselves.

The Gemini in Drive characteristic offers a well-known chatbot interface that may present fast summaries describing the footage or pull particular info. For instance, customers can ask Gemini to checklist motion gadgets talked about in recorded conferences or spotlight the largest updates and new merchandise in an announcement video, saving time spent on manually combing by way of and taking notes.

The characteristic requires captions to be enabled for movies, and will be accessed utilizing both Google Drive’s overlay previewer or a brand new browser tab window. It’s accessible in English for Google Workspace and Google One AI Premium customers, and anybody who has beforehand bought Gemini Enterprise or Enterprise add-ons, although it might take a couple of weeks to totally roll out.

Google can also be dropping one other Workspace characteristic that shows engagement data for Drive videos. The Drive video participant will now present what number of instances a video has been opened throughout the Analytics part of the Particulars panel, giving customers some indication of how their clips are performing.