Gemini in Gmail now integrated with the Google Calendar app

Gemini in Gmail gains support for more artificial intelligence (AI) features. On Wednesday, Google announced the integration of the Google Calendar app with its native AI model Gemini. This way, eligible users can use Gemini within Gmail to ask Calendar-based questions to users. The feature is available to Google Workspace users who have one of the Gemini add-ons. This feature is currently only available on the web. Notably, the Mountain View-based tech giant expanded its AI-powered “Help Me Write” and “Polish” features across the web last month.

Gemini in Gmail gets Google Calendar integration

In one blog postthe tech giant has detailed the new feature. Gmail has already integrated several Google apps with the email client. Google Calendar is one of them. Users can use the Calendar integration to add tasks at a future date, schedule meetings, and view colleagues’ daily plans.

Now, the tech giant is rolling out Gemini’s integration with the Calendar app available in the Gmail side panel. This allows users to tap the ‘Ask Gemini’ icon in the top right corner of Gmail’s web interface and ask various questions that require Calendar functionality.

Gemini in Gmail integrates with Google Calendar
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For example, users can ask about their own upcoming calendar events or ask Gemini to create a one-time and repeating calendar event. To give an example, the message said users can ask Gemini to “a [30 min] calendar event for my weekly [yoga class] each [Monday and Wednesday] bee [9 AM]”, and the AI ​​will add it immediately.

However, there are several limitations to what the AI ​​can currently do. Gemini cannot add or remove guests from events, create events by extracting information from an email, retrieve attachments from calendar events, or add or manage meeting rooms. Moreover, the AI ​​tool also cannot perform complex tasks such as finding the best time to meet someone else in the organization.

Notably, the Google Calendar integration for Gemini in Gmail is available to Workspace users with Gemini Business, Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Education, Gemini Education Premium, or the Google One AI Premium add-ons.