Overview
- The new Gemini app runs on Windows 10 and 11 and surfaces as an overlay summoned with Alt + Space, plus a persistent workspace for multi-step, iterative tasks.
- Google built native links to Workspace so users can pull email and document content from Gmail and Google Drive directly into Gemini conversations.
- The app exposes multimodal creation tools called Nano Banana for images and Gemini Omni for video, letting users generate visuals from the same desktop interface.
- Early hands-on testing found functional limits: Gemini cannot perform some Workspace actions such as deleting emails or sorting Drive files and has reliability issues when saving or generating media.
- Google says the client is lightweight and will gain more native desktop features over time, a move meant to broaden distribution on Windows and offer an alternative to Microsoft’s Copilot for Workspace users led by product director Erin Pettigrew.