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Don’t want to sit through the video meeting that should have been an email? Gemini can help.
Google announced a number of new features for Gemini at I/O 2025 last week, and now it’s already adding another. Starting today, Gemini can watch videos in Drive for you, taking notes on what’s important or finding that tidbit of information you need.
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In a recent blog post, Google said you can use Gemini to get summaries or ask questions about the content of videos in your Drive without having to watch them. There are preset prompts for a simple summary, key takeaways, and action items, but you can also enter your own prompt to ask whatever you want.Â
This comes after a Google Workspace “Feature Drop” a few months ago that added several useful enhancements to the suite of tools, such as the ability to automatically generate next steps in Meets, voiceovers for Google’s AI video generation tool, and an expansion of Google Chat’s “Translate for me” feature.Â
Google explained that a video can contain a lot of information, and sometimes, it’s just not convenient or feasible to go back and watch everything again. With this Gemini feature, you can get the information you need much faster.
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Gemini already has the capability to analyze files in Drive, including PDFs, text files, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Google Docs files
To use this feature, you’ll need to access Gemini in Drive, not the standalone app or your phone’s assistant. Double-click on a video from the Google Drive file list to get started, and click on “Ask Gemini” (the star button) in the top right corner.Â
For now, the feature is only available to Google Workspace customers on business or enterprise plans, customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on, and Google One AI Premium subscribers. If past rollouts are any indication, this feature will likely expand to more users in the months ahead.
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