Revolutionize Your Presentations: Google Slides & Workspace Get Powerful AI Upgrades
Google is significantly boosting its productivity suite, Google Workspace, with a suite of new artificial intelligence (AI) features, particularly focusing on Google Slides and Google Vids. These updates are set to make your presentations and videos more professional, creative, and efficient, marking Google’s aggressive push to embed AI throughout its tools and challenge competitors like Microsoft 365.
AI-Powered Image Editing for Stunning Slides
Google Slides, already a powerful and free alternative to Microsoft’s PowerPoint, is now even more robust with advanced AI image editing capabilities. Previously, Slides allowed users to remove image backgrounds using AI. Now, the functionality has expanded significantly:
• Generate New Image Backgrounds: You can now generate entirely new backgrounds for your images using AI. Simply select the option, input your desired prompt, and Google Slides will create a fresh backdrop. This is ideal for:
◦ Adding a beautiful scene to a plain product photo.
◦ Improving employee headshots with more appealing surroundings.
◦ Adapting slides to better suit specific client needs.
• Expand Image Backgrounds: The new update also allows users to expand existing image backgrounds. This provides greater flexibility, enabling you to “resize and reframe visuals” to perfectly fit your presentation layout. You’ll have multiple options to expand the image, ensuring the ideal result.
To access these powerful new features, users will need to have Gemini access on their Google account. This includes Google AI Pro or AI Ultra accounts, Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium, and Business Standard and Plus, along with Enterprise Standard and Plus users.
Expanding AI Creativity to Google Vids and Beyond
The same AI image editing features for generating and expanding backgrounds are also rolling out to Google Vids, a video creation tool within Google Workspace. This expansion democratizes advanced video editing, allowing teams to produce professional-grade content without needing specialized software.
Furthermore, AI is being leveraged in Google Drive, where AI-powered video summaries can distill hours of footage into key takeaways, significantly saving time for busy teams.
Beyond image editing, the broader Google Workspace update integrates Veo 3, Google’s advanced video generation model, into the Gemini app for select Workspace customers. Announced at Google I/O 2025, Veo 3 can generate realistic videos complete with audio, including accurate lip-syncing and ambient sounds like traffic or birdsong. A new photo-to-video feature further enhances creativity by allowing users to animate static images into eight-second clips for presentations and reports.
Enhanced Accessibility and Robust Security
Google’s commitment to inclusive innovation is evident with the rollout of Google Vids to Education customers, enabling educators to create interactive lessons. The Studio panel in NotebookLM is also gaining video overviews, facilitating quick synthesis of complex information.
On the security front, the update includes Device Bound Session Credentials. This crucial enhancement combats token-stealing attacks by binding user sessions to specific devices, effectively thwarting remote hacks. This makes Workspace a more fortified and appealing option for IT leaders concerned about data breaches.
Google’s Vision for the Future of Work
These updates are part of Google’s ongoing strategy to embed AI across Workspace, helping professionals collaborate more efficiently in hybrid work environments. Recent monthly feature drops have already brought Gemini enhancements to Gmail ,Meet and Sheets, adding tools like note-taking and translation. Google’s aggressive stance in the productivity suite arena, with AI-native tools, positions it as a strong competitor to it’s rivals.
If you frequently deliver presentations or work collaboratively, these new AI features in Google Slides and Google Workspace are poised to redefine how you create and share content, blending automation with human ingenuity to drive efficiency. We highly recommend checking out these powerful updates on the web or through the Android app.