The world’s largest email service just initiated step one in a larger plan to secure Google as your favorite AI platform.

Google is souping up Gmail with features from its Gemini 3 AI app. Here's what to know — including how to opt out.

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.

The aim is to transform Gmail from a traditional inbox into what Google describes as a “personal, proactive inbox assistant.”