Gemini can lastly search Gmail and Drive, following Microsoft

Google has lastly begun including assist for its personal inner providers to Google Gemini, only a month after Microsoft started providing the identical capabilities to Home windows testers.

Google stated Wednesday that Gemini Deep Analysis can now connect with Gmail, Google Drive, and Chat, together with Docs, Slides, Sheets, and PDF information saved inside these providers.

“This highly effective new functionality is now accessible for all Gemini customers,” Google stated in a weblog put up on Wednesday. “To get began, simply choose ‘Deep Analysis’ from the Instruments menu in Gemini on desktop and choose your sources. This may start rolling out to cell customers within the coming days.”

On October 10, Microsoft introduced that its personal Copilot AI might start studying Gmail and your Google Calendar through a know-how known as Connectors, which lets you manually give entry to Copilot in order that it may well ingest and analyze that knowledge. (On the time, this was restricted to members of the Home windows Insiders testing program.) Per week later, Microsoft extra formally introduced that those self same connectors would enable Copilot to entry OneDrive information and Outlook contacts, emails, and calendar occasions, in addition to connect with Google providers like Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts. Microsoft hasn’t formally stated when these extra capabilities can be launched to customers, nevertheless, giving Google a first-to-market benefit.

In an August livestream, OpenAI and ChatGPT additionally briefly confirmed off Gmail integration, although ChatGPT’s connections don’t look like as deep or important proper now. Nevertheless, OpenAI’s DevDay 2025 livestream did reveal that ChatGPT can work with apps like Zillow and Canva and question them for extra info.

For now, the one level wherein the 2 providers don’t appear to overlap is in Google Chats, although that could be a functionality Microsoft particularly uncared for to name out. In any occasion, each Microsoft and Google now seem to supply related capabilities to permit its AI providers to deeply search and perceive what you may your colleagues are speaking about.