Turn access to Gemini for Google Workspace Alpha on or off

As a Google Workspace administrator, you can let your users try Gemini Alpha features before they're released to customers as part of Gemini for Google Workspace.

Important notes about Gemini for Google Workspace

  • The Alpha setting is available only to organizations that are already using Gemini for Google Workspace.
  • Gemini Alpha is turned off by default. Only an admin can turn it on.
  • You can turn on Gemini Alpha features for all of your Gemini for Google Workspace users or for a subset of Gemini users within specific organizational units or groups.
  • Alpha features get the same robust data protection standards that come with all Google Workspace services.
  • Alpha features may not be available in all editions of Gemini for Google Workspace. Check the feature availability table to see what's currently available to your organization.   

Periodically, Google adds or removes Gemini Alpha features, and this page is updated for the current, supported Alpha features.

What terms apply to Alpha features?

By enabling Alpha features in Gemini for Google Workspace, you agree that the Pre-General Availability Offering Terms (excluding Section 6.1(b)), and Generative AI Services sections of the Google Workspace Service Specific Terms apply to your organization's use of the Alpha features. For clarity, Google's data protection and processing obligations with respect to Customer Data set forth in the Cloud Data Processing Addendum will apply to the Alpha features.

Features available today in Gemini Alpha

Tip! Join Google Cloud Connect to learn about the latest alpha testing opportunities.

Feature availability

  Gemini
Business
Gemini
Enterprise
AI
Meetings & Messaging
AI Security
Gemini summaries in Google Chat  
Gemini side panel in Google Chat    
AI generated charts, insights, and Q&A in the Sheets side panel    
Reference your calendar and take calendar actions with Gemini    
Help me create a form    
Google Vids    
Gemini side panel in 7 languages other than English    

Gemini summaries in Google Chat home

Gemini summaries in Google Chat allows you to stay updated on unread conversations in spaces where you're a member. These summaries are available for any group conversation, space, or thread in Home that contain unread messages. Use these summaries to determine whether to engage in the conversation without having to open it and read through every message. Generate a summary from Home by hovering over an unread group conversation, space, or thread from Home, and click Summarize.

Learn more about using Gemini summaries in Google Chat home.

Gemini side panel in Google Chat

Gemini in Chat is an always-on, contextual, real-time collaboration partner that can assist in helpful ways including summarizing lengthy conversations, distilling action items for all or specific users, answering questions, and more, providing relevant insights grounded in Google Search and the information in your Gmail inbox and Drive.

Learn more about using the Gemini side panel in Google Chat.

AI generated charts, insights, and Q&A in the Sheets side panel

Use Gemini in the side panel to help accomplish key workflows in Google Sheets, such as:

  • Data Q&A—Answer data questions, generate data insights, and calculate metrics with natural language
  • Charting—Generate static charts and graphs in the side panel for insertion into the sheet

Learn more at Collaborate with Gemini in Google Sheets.

Reference your calendar and take Calendar actions with Gemini

In the Gmail side panel, Gemini will help take simple actions on your behalf, like adding a referenced event from an email to your calendar, without you leaving your current Google Workspace app. 

Learn more at Collaborate with Gemini in Gmail.

Help me create a form

Note: This feature started rolling out on September 3, 2024. It will be fully available to all users in the Gemini Alpha program over the next weeks. 

Help form creators quickly get started with form creation with the help of AI! A form creator can type in what kind of form they want to create in Google Forms and forms uses AI to create a first draft of the form to help the form creator get started quickly.

Learn more about using Gemini in Google Forms.

Google Vids

Vids is an AI-powered video creation app that’s designed for work and deeply integrated with the Workspace suite you use every day. With Gemini in Vids, use “Help me create'' to generate a first draft video with a prompt and content from your Drive. Enrich scenes with our royalty-free stock content library and personalize your message with Vids recording studio–all without ever leaving Workspace.

Find out what you can do with Google Vids.

Gemini side panel in 7 languages other than English

The Gemini side panel in Gmail, Docs, Sheets and Drive is now available in 7 languages (in addition to English): Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, German, Italian, and French.

Get access to Gemini Alpha features

  1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

    Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).

  2. In the Admin console, go to Menu and then Generative AI > Gemini for Workspace.

  3. Click the Alpha features panel.
  4. At the left, choose one of the following:
    1. Users–check if a user currently has access to Gemini Alpha. 
    2. Groups–select groups that will get access to Gemini Alpha. Learn how groups work.
    3. Organizational units–select organizational units that will get access to Gemini Alpha. Learn how organizational units work.
  5. Click On, and then follow the on-screen prompts to enable Gemini Alpha. 
  6. (Optional) Check the box to allow your organization to participate in Google surveys. This feedback helps to improve features in Gemini. 

 

 

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