They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, and Google seems to agree.
On Tuesday, the company added features to its AI-powered features Gemini The chatbot believes the company is making a phone call. Conceptually the same name as Openai CANVAS Tools and Human artifactsCanvas provides Gemini users with an interactive space where they can create, refine and share writing and coding projects.
“Canvases are designed to work seamlessly with Gemini,” wrote Dave Citron, Director of Product at Gemini in a blog post shared with TechCrunch. “With these new features, Gemini are becoming more effective collaborators to help you bring your ideas to life.”
Workspaces like Gemini Canvas, Chatgpt canvas and artifacts are the latest attempts from AI companies, which convert their chatbot platform into a full-fledged productivity suite. Dedicated workspaces provide more precise accuracy than providing text-based interfaces alone and provide a way to preview code in real time.
Gemini Canvas, which can be launched through the prompt bar of the Gemini app on the web and mobile devices, allows users to draft lengthy messages with Gemini, which they can then edit and fine-tune. Using canvas, users can update specific parts of the draft and adjust tone, length, and format with dedicated tools.
“For example, highlight a paragraph, asking Gemini to make it more concise, professional or informal,” Citron explained in a blog post. “If you want to work with someone else on what you just made, you can click to export it to Google Docs.”
As mentioned earlier, the canvas also wraps a programming-centric feature, including a feature that allows users to generate and preview HTML, React Code, and other Web App prototypes. Users can ask Gemini to make changes to the preview and the canvas will refresh it iteratively.
“For example, say you want to create an email subscription form for your website,” Citron wrote. “You can ask Gemini to generate HTML for the form and then preview its display and functionality in the web application.”
Together with the canvas, Google brings audio overview functionality notebook The company announced Tuesday that it was against Gemini. Google’s NotebookLM last year conducted an Audio overview, which creates a podcast-style audio summary from documents, web pages, and other sources.
Like the audio overview in NotebookLM, the audio overview in Gemini accepts files and content in various formats. Uploading a document through the prompt bar triggers an audio overview shortcut that can be downloaded or shared via the Gemini app on the web or mobile once a summary has been generated.
As of Tuesday, Gemini users around the world can get free canvas and audio overviews. However, Canvas’ code preview feature is only on the web, but the audio overview summary is limited to English.
