Gmail brings AI Overviews, new email writing tools to your inbox

Google is rolling out new Generative AI features to users’ Gmail inboxes, allowing them to access AI summaries, a new AI inbox, as well as email writing tools to turn text prompts into more complete messages.

In a blog post shared by the company, Google announced that Gmail users will be able to see AI Overviews for their inbox contents, similar to the way the results summarisation feature works when using Google Search.

AI overviews in Gmail will let users see long conversations as a “concise summary of key points,” as well as answer questions, per the company . However, while AI Overview conversation summaries are rolling out for all, only Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can ask their inbox questions with AI Overviews.

In addition to this, Gmail’s AI-powered ‘Help Me Write’ and ‘Suggested Replies’ features will be rolled out to all for free, while the ‘Proofread’ feature is available for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. These email features help users draft entire emails with just text prompts, or improve earlier email drafts.

Google noted that many of the improvements and new features were powered by the company’s Gemini 3 model.

Furthermore, Google announced a new AI Inbox that trusted users are still testing. The AI Inbox is designed to help users prioritise tasks gleaned through their emails and contacts, while de-prioritising clutter. For example, users can be reminded about paying bills and going to medical appointments, based on the day’s needs.

“AI Inbox is like having a personalized briefing, highlighting to-dos and catching you up on what matters. It helps you prioritize, identifying your VIPs based on signals like people you email frequently, those in your contacts list and relationships it can infer from message content. Crucially, this analysis happens securely with the privacy protections you expect from Google, keeping your data under your control,” said Google’s Product VP for Gmail, Blake Barnes.

The AI Inbox will become available to more people over the coming months.

The new features have started rolling out in English to users in the U.S., for Gmail users as well as Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. Global and multi-language rollouts will happen in the coming months, per the company.