Google’s Gemini gets conversational coding and an AI podcast maker

Google conscionable released 2 caller features for its Gemini AI assistant: Canvas and Audio Overviews.

Canvas introduces a dedicated workspace wrong Gemini wherever users tin create and refine some documents and codification successful real-time. Users tin rotation up first drafts and past activity pinch Gemini to edit circumstantial sections, set tone, aliases reformat contented arsenic needed.

For coding projects, Canvas includes a unrecorded preview alongside the codification truthful users tin iteratively edit while watching it germinate arsenic you make the changes.

The 2nd feature, Audio Overview, converts written materials (like documents aliases slides) into a “podcast-style chat betwixt 2 AI hosts.” This functionality was antecedently disposable in Google’s NotebookLM. (The squad responsible for creating NotebookLM left successful December to motorboat their ain startup).

Both features are rolling retired globally coming for Gemini and Gemini Advanced subscribers, though Audio Overview is presently only disposable successful English, pinch much connection support planned, the institution said successful a blog station connected Tuesday.

AI competitors for illustration Anthropic and OpenAI person akin features — called Projects and Canvas respectively. The naming conventions for these features person gotten competitory arsenic well. Google launched a characteristic called Deep Research, wherever AI conducts investigation connected a taxable for you, in December. Then, OpenAI released a akin characteristic pinch the aforesaid name successful February. In October, OpenAI released a characteristic for penning and coding projects called Canvas. Now, Google is releasing the aforesaid characteristic nether the aforesaid sanction too.