Gemini Deep Research can now connect to your Gmail, Docs, Drive and even Chat (blog.google)

Google’s Gemini Deep Research can now pull private workplace context directly from your Gmail, Drive (Docs, Slides, Sheets and PDFs) and Google Chat and blend that with public web sources to generate richer, personalized research. The feature is available to all Gemini users today on desktop — pick “Deep Research” from the Tools menu and select which sources to include — with a mobile rollout starting soon. Typical uses include market analyses that ingest team brainstorming notes and email threads, or competitor reports that cross-reference public data with internal strategy documents and spreadsheets. For the AI/ML community this represents a notable step toward integrated Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows that fuse private organizational data with open web knowledge at scale. Technically, it’s a document- and message-level connector that injects selected contextual content into the model’s research pipeline, enabling more accurate, actionable outputs tailored to an organization’s internal state. That capability will accelerate product analysis, decision-support and automation but also raises operational considerations around access control, auditability, data minimization and privacy governance—areas practitioners and deployers will need to address as these combined private+public research workflows become common.