New Gemini features: Gems and Deep Research

New features in the Google Gemini AI app.
By Tom Crouch and Elliot Bowes |
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Two features have been added to Google’s Gemini app: Gems and Deep Research. Both are available to all Outwood staff.

Gems

With Gemini Gems, you can create reusable AI prompts. They can be used to create an expert on a topic or mini-tools to help automate frequent tasks.

You can give a Gem:

  • A prompt
  • Up to 10 files containing information to reference
  • A name

Click on your gem to start a new chat, with your prompt and reference material already loaded.

Tip

The Gemini app (and Gems) can work with documents in your Google Drive. To do that, you’ll need to go to Gemini settings and toggle on the “Google Workspace” app.

Step-by-step guide

Learn more

For more information, take a look at Google’s guide to Gems.

Deep research

Deep research is a powerful tool to generate in-depth responses to your question or topic. Unlike a regular chat with Gemini, it retrieves relevant information and facts from the internet (and shows you which sources it used).

All Outwood staff can use it to create 5 reports each month.

Some of the things we’ve been using it for include:

  • Researching a summary of an unfamiliar topic
  • Compare this vs that, with pros and cons
  • Finding an answer that might take a lot of Googling

This two-minute video explains how to get started with Gemini Deep Research.

Learn more

For more information, take a look at Google’s introduction to Deep Research.