Google Gemini’s Deep Research can look into your emails, drive, and chats

Gemini can now draw from your emails and documents while performing “deep research” queries. Google’s announcement blog called this “one of our most-requested features” for Gemini Deep Research, which is an agentic feature styled specifically for creating research reports rather than just answering questions. The chatbot starts by creating a multi-step research plan, then it performs a series of web searches to create a report that you can ask it to tweak with additional info, or export the whole thing into a Google Doc or AI-generated podcast.

Google says of the new connection between Deep Research and Workspace products:

Now you can start a market analysis for a new product by having Deep Research analyze your team’s initial brainstorming docs, related email threads and project plans. Or you can build a competitor report about a rival product that cross-references public web data with your strategies, comparison spreadsheets and team chats.

Once “deep research” is selected on the Gemini’s prompt bar, users can pick which of the four options they want Gemini to use: a regular Google Search, Gmail, Drive, and/or Chat. That means that your emails in Gmail, your docs, slides, sheets, and PDFs in Drive, and your chatlogs — if you use Google Chat — will provide context for Google’s AI model. 

For now, it’s only on desktop, but Google says it’ll soon start rolling out to mobile in the coming days.