"Google's Gemini Deep Research tool can now reach deep into Gmail, Drive, and Chat to obtain data that might be useful for answering research questions. Gemini Deep Research is Gemini 2.5 Pro (presently) deputized as an agent, meaning it embarks on a multistep process to respond to a directive rather than spitting out an immediate response. Deep Research systems incorporate knowledge discovery, workflow automation, and research orchestration."
"There is precedent for this sort of data access among other AI vendors, since providing AI models with access to personal files and data tends to make them more useful - at the expense of privacy and security. Anthropic's Claude, for example, has web-based connectors for accessing Google Drive and Slack. Its iOS incarnation can access certain apps like Maps and iMessage. And Claude Desktop supports desktop extensions for access to the local file system."
Gemini Deep Research operates as an agented version of Gemini 2.5 Pro that creates and executes multistep research plans. Gemini can access Gmail, Drive (Docs, Slides, Sheets, PDFs), and Google Chat when granted permission to provide added context for research queries. Accessing personal Workspace data can improve research quality by surfacing relevant internal information. Comparable offerings exist from other vendors and open source projects. Granting models access to personal files increases usefulness while introducing privacy and security risks. Google’s broader privacy notice indicates use of publicly available information to train models and build features.
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