Gemini AI can now summarize what’s in your Google Drive folders

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Gemini's integration into Google Drive is getting a little more useful. In addition to summarizing documents or answering questions about a project, the AI assistant can now generate summaries of everything inside a folder.

With the feature, you can open a folder and select the new Summarize this folder" button at the top of the page. Gemini will then give you a breakdown of the folder's contents. As noted by Google, you can use Gemini to find specific files inside a folder, or ask questions about it, like What is the theme of this folder?"

You can also drag and drop a folder into the Gemini sidebar, as well as right-click on a folder and choose Ask Gemini."

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For now, Google says Gemini can only provide information about text documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, and presentations. However, when 9to5Google tested the tool, it found that Gemini could identify images in a folder, too.

Google first brought Gemini to the sidebar in Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides in June. Gemini's folder summary feature is rolling out now to Google One AI Premium subscribers, along with Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education, and Education Premium users.