Gemini in Drive adds AI Overviews, Q&A

Google is effectively turning Drive into a native RAG surface for Workspace, which is a bigger product shift than it first looks.

• –AI Overviews bring cited summaries directly into Drive search, so users can get answers without opening every file.
• –Cross-file Q&A across Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and the web makes the assistant useful for synthesis, not just lookup.
• –The rollout is gated to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, and Drive access is currently U.S.-only, so this is powerful but not yet universal.
• –For teams living in Workspace, this narrows the gap between “stored content” and “actionable knowledge,” which is exactly where a lot of AI value is moving.