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.

Google just removed the paywall on Gmail’s premium AI tools, giving you Help Me Write, AI Overviews, and Suggested Replies for free.

Google today made three Gmail AI features free for all personal account holders in the United States, removing the subscription requirement that previously locked them behind its Google AI Pro or Ultra tiers.