They are saying imitation is the sincerest type of flattery, and Google appears to agree.
On Tuesday, the corporate added a characteristic to its AI-powered Gemini chatbot that the corporate is looking Canvas. Comparable in idea to OpenAI’s identically-named Canvas software for ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Artifacts, Canvas gives Gemini customers with an interactive area the place they’ll create, refine, and share writing and coding initiatives.
“Canvas is designed for seamless collaboration with Gemini,” Gemini product director Dave Citron wrote in a weblog submit shared with TechCrunch. “With these new options, Gemini is turning into an much more efficient collaborator, serving to you carry your concepts to life.”
Workspaces resembling Gemini Canvas, ChatGPT Canvas, and Artifacts are the AI corporations’ newest try to rework their chatbot platforms into full-blown productiveness suites. Devoted workspaces can provide extra precision than text-based interfaces alone, in addition to present a approach to preview code in real-time.
Gemini Canvas, which may be launched by way of the immediate bar from the Gemini app on the net and cell, lets customers draft prolonged messages with Gemini that they’ll then edit and fine-tune. Utilizing Canvas, customers can replace particular sections of a draft and regulate the tone, size, and formatting by way of devoted instruments.
“For instance, spotlight a paragraph and ask Gemini to make it extra concise, skilled, or casual,” Citron defined within the weblog submit. “If you wish to collaborate with others on the content material you simply made, you may export it to Google Docs with a click on.”
As alluded to earlier, Canvas additionally packs programming-focused capabilities, together with a characteristic that lets customers generate and preview HTML, React code, and different net app prototypes. Customers can ask Gemini to make adjustments to a preview, and Canvas will iteratively refresh it.
“For instance, say you need to create an electronic mail subscription kind on your web site,” Citron wrote. “You may ask Gemini to generate the HTML for the shape after which preview the way it will seem and performance inside your net app.”
Together with Canvas, Google is bringing the Audio Overview characteristic of NotebookLM to Gemini, the corporate introduced Tuesday. Google’s NotebookLM went viral final 12 months for Audio Overview, which creates realistic-sounding podcast-style audio summaries of paperwork, webpages, and different sources.
As with Audio Overview in NotebookLM, Audio Overview in Gemini accepts information and content material in a variety of codecs. Importing a doc by way of the immediate bar will set off the Audio Overview shortcut, and as soon as a abstract is generated, it may be downloaded or shared by way of the Gemini app on the net or cell.
Each Canvas and Audio Overview can be found without spending a dime to Gemini customers worldwide as of Tuesday. Canvas’ code preview characteristic is just on the net for now, nevertheless, and Audio Overview summaries are restricted to English.
