Free Gemini is now genuinely useful, AI Pro offers strong value for professionals and creators, and AI Ultra is effectively an all-you-can-use AI stack priced for those who plan to live inside Google’s AI ecosystem.

AI Overviews first appeared in Gmail last year to summarize email chains, and now it’s expanding to Gmail search. This is closer to the AI Overview experience to which you are accustomed in Google’s web search. You can enter a natural language search, and the robot churns through your messages to generate a response.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says Google is ushering Gmail into a new "Gemini era" by integrating AI-powered summaries and a personalized AI Inbox to help users manage growing email volumes, while Alphabet shares edged slightly lower after hours.

First up is a new AI overview feature, which will feel familiar to anyone who’s used Google Search lately. Gmail will now summarize long email threads. When a user opens a message chain with dozens of replies, Gmail will generate “a concise summary of key points.” Google says this feature is rolling out today and will be free for all users.

With the launch of “in-line AI experiences” in Gmail, Google has shared that the Gemini side panel is going away for AI Pro and

Google today announced a set of big Gemini 3-based updates for Gmail that will bring AI into your inbox in a big way.