Google introduces AI Inbox view for Gmail

Google introduced a new AI-powered Inbox for Gmail yesterday that offers a personalized task overview and highlights important updates.

It will scan users’ emails and generate personalized to-do lists and topic summaries.

Google says the tool can suggest actions such as rescheduling appointments, replying to specific contacts, or settling pending fees. It also generates summaries of ongoing conversations across family, workplace, and other email threads.

The AI Inbox view is currently available to a limited group of testers in the United States, with Google planning a wider global rollout for consumer Gmail users in the near future.

Additionally, Google is making several premium AI tools, such as Help Me Write, AI overviews, and thread summaries, available to all consumer accounts for free.

Paid users can now get a Grammarly-like spellcheck feature and an AI search bar where Google says users can ask questions like “Who was the plumber that gave me a quote for the bathroom renovation last year?” and find the mail.

Through these moves, Alphabet aims to make Gmail an AI personal assistant.

For those concerned about privacy, Google maintains that Gmail content is not used to train its Gemini AI models, and users can disable these features entirely.