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The Gmail app will now create AI summaries


Workspace users will be seeing a lot more of Google’s AI summaries soon.

Before this latest change, you had to tap the "Summarize this email" chip at the top of the screen to generate an AI summary of the message contents. The announcement is a bit vague about how much detail will trigger a summary, but it probably won't take much, as Google wants people interacting with AI features as much as possible. Summarizing content is one of the more judicious applications of generative AI technology, dating back to the 2017 paper on the transformer architecture.

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