Google says Meet's Gemini-powered Take Notes for Me feature can now be used for in-person meetings and adds support for Teams and Zoom
Besides Workspace Intelligence, Google announced a suite of new Workspace features across Drive, Sheets, Meet, and more at Cloud Next 2026.
Context & Ripple Effects
Google has been adding AI assistance and collaboration features across Workspace for several years, from Meet transcription and presentation controls to Gemini functions in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Chat. It also moved to make the standalone Gemini app standard in Workspace plans rather than a separate add-on.
This update extends that Workspace AI layer beyond Meet-native calls, making meeting capture useful when a team is physically together or uses competing conferencing software.
First-order effects
- Workspace users can use Gemini-powered notes for in-person meetings as well as meetings conducted through Teams and Zoom.
- Google makes Meet’s note-taking capability relevant to organizations whose meeting workflows are not confined to Google’s own video service.
Second-order effects
- Teams and Zoom deployments become additional entry points for Gemini and Workspace, reducing the need for a company to standardize entirely on Meet before adopting Google’s meeting AI.
- Google’s collaboration suite competes more directly on cross-platform workflow support, while Teams and Zoom face pressure to match AI capture and follow-up capabilities without assuming a single conferencing stack.
Third-order effects
- If cross-platform support expands, meeting notes and follow-up context could become a shared AI layer across mixed enterprise tool stacks rather than a feature tied to one conferencing client.
- The move reinforces a shift in which productivity vendors use embedded assistants to consolidate work artifacts around their suites, even when the underlying meeting occurs elsewhere.
The trend: Enterprise AI is moving from app-specific features toward embedded, cross-platform work surfaces that capture and organize collaboration wherever it happens.