Google just launched Ask Gemini for Meet, bringing AI-powered meeting assistance to select Workspace enterprise customers. The assistant can answer questions, summarize what participants missed, and identify key decisions - all while keeping responses private and deleting data after calls end.
Google is making meetings smarter with the rollout of Ask Gemini for Meet, but don't expect to see it in your personal Google account anytime soon. The AI assistant launches exclusively for select Google Workspace enterprise customers, marking another strategic move to monetize AI through business subscriptions rather than consumer features.
The timing couldn't be better for Google's enterprise push. As remote and hybrid work cement themselves as permanent fixtures, companies are desperately seeking tools that make virtual meetings more productive. Ask Gemini promises to be that invisible assistant everyone wishes they had - answering questions, summarizing key points, and helping late arrivals catch up without awkward interruptions.
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Here's how it works: The AI taps into live captions generated during calls, plus any Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides that participants can access. It can also pull from public websites, creating a comprehensive knowledge base for answering questions on the spot. "What did Sarah say about the Q4 projections?" becomes a query the AI can actually answer by referencing specific moments in the conversation.
But Google's being careful about privacy and transparency. According to the official announcement, Ask Gemini's responses stay private to each participant - your AI-generated meeting summary won't be visible to others. More importantly, all meeting data including captions gets wiped when the call ends, addressing the growing enterprise concern about AI systems storing sensitive business discussions.
The feature builds on Google's existing Take Notes for Me capability, which already generates meeting summaries automatically. Ask Gemini takes this a step further by making that information interactive and queryable in real-time.
Google's rollout strategy reveals its enterprise priorities clearly. The feature launches first for Workspace Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Standard, Business Plus, and Business Standard customers - the premium tiers that generate the highest per-user revenue. Google won't expand to Business Starter and other lower-tier plans until Q1 2026, and only after "collecting and applied critical user feedback to improve the feature."
