Google has just unveiled its latest innovation, Duet AI, making it “generally available” within Google Workspace. This game-changing AI service is set at a competitive price point of $30 per month per user, mirroring Microsoft’s Copilot assistant for Microsoft 365 applications, as reported by CNBC.
In a recent blog post, Google introduced the concept of having an intelligent, real-time collaboration partner that can significantly reduce your workload, allowing you to focus on what truly matters. Duet AI steps in to handle various tasks, giving you more time for strategic thinking.
Duet AI in Google Meet: Revolutionizing Meetings
One of Duet AI’s standout features is its ability to assist with email composition, presentation creation, and meeting participation. During Google Meet sessions, Duet AI actively captures notes, action items, and video snippets in real-time, ensuring that meeting attendees receive a comprehensive summary, so nothing important slips through the cracks. Additionally, Google Meet users can now enjoy a studio-like experience, with improved lighting, sound quality, and the ability to customize their appearance during meetings. Duet AI even supports automatic translated captions in 18 languages, enhancing the accessibility and inclusivity of meetings.
For those working on Google Slides, Duet AI can generate original images from text and automatically construct presentations, simplifying the content creation process. Meanwhile, in Gmail and Google Docs, Duet AI serves as a writing assistant, helping users compose and refine their content efficiently.
To illustrate the transformative capabilities of Duet AI, the blog post shared a scenario where an executive receives a last-minute request from their boss to create a quarterly report by 8 AM the following day. With Duet AI, this daunting task becomes manageable as the AI can generate a complete presentation, complete with text, charts, and images, based on relevant content in G Drive and Gmail. What once required an all-nighter can now be completed before dinner time.
This groundbreaking AI service is available to users of Google Workspace, a platform with approximately three billion users worldwide, including over 10 million with paid subscriptions. Google is offering a free trial for those interested in trying out Duet AI before committing to the service, according to a Google blog post.
Duet AI vs. Microsoft 365 Copilot: A Pricing Showdown
Duet AI was first introduced by Google at its annual developer conference, serving as a response to Microsoft 365 Copilot, an AI-powered tool that integrates with Microsoft’s popular apps. Both offerings come at the same monthly price point, leading to some friendly rivalry between the tech giants.
It’s worth noting that the cost of Duet AI is separate from Google Workspace subscription fees, and for smaller organizations and individual users, Google has yet to finalize pricing, according to Aparna Pappu, GM and Vice President of Google Workspace, in her conversation with CNBC. Despite the similarities in pricing, Google’s Duet AI promises to be a valuable addition to the toolkit of professionals and organizations looking to streamline their workflows and enhance collaboration.
