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Gemini across Google's products

4 questions test this

Four names that sound alike and are sold to different buyers. The exam describes a situation and expects the right one, so the separating question is always who the user is and what the assistant can see.

The Gemini app

The standalone assistant, on the web and on mobile. Drafting, summarising, analysis, image understanding and generation.

It sees what you give it. Nothing about your organisation is available unless you paste it in. The business value is individual productivity, and adoption needs no project.

Gemini Advanced

The paid consumer and business tier of the app. Access to the most capable Gemini models, longer context, and Gems.

A Gem is a saved configuration. Instructions, tone, and reference material, stored under a name so a recurring task starts from the same setup every time. A team might keep one for turning research notes into a summary in the house format. It changes nothing about the model, which is exactly why anybody can create one without engineering help.

Gemini for Google Workspace

The same capability inside Docs, Gmail, Sheets, Slides and Meet. Drafting in a document, summarising a long thread, generating a slide, taking notes in a meeting.

The distinction from the app is context. It can see the document you are working in and the files you have access to, so it does not need to be told what you are doing. The business value is that adoption requires no change of habit, which is usually the largest obstacle.

Gemini Enterprise

The organisational product. It searches and reasons across a company's own systems, its documents, its data and its applications, respecting the permissions each person already has.

The exam names three capabilities. Multimodal search across company content, so a question can be answered from a slide deck or a recorded meeting as readily as from a document. Custom agent capabilities, so an organisation can build agents that act on its own systems. And the Gemini Notebook API, which brings notebook style research and grounded synthesis over a chosen set of sources into an organisation's own applications.

Choosing between them

Ask who the user is and what the assistant needs to see.

One person, general work, nothing internal, that is the Gemini app, with Advanced if they want the strongest models and Gems. Everybody, inside the tools they already use, that is Gemini for Workspace. The organisation's own knowledge, across systems, with permissions respected and agents acting on it, that is Gemini Enterprise.

The give away in a question is usually a phrase about company data or about existing permissions. Either one points at Enterprise.

Common misconceptions

A Gem is a fine tuned model.

A Gem is a saved configuration of instructions and context that shapes how Gemini responds for a recurring task. Nothing about the model changes. It is a reusable prompt with a name, which is why anyone can make one.

Gemini for Google Workspace and the Gemini app are the same thing.

The app is a standalone assistant you go to. Gemini for Workspace puts the same capability inside Docs, Gmail, Sheets, Slides and Meet, where the work already is and where it can see the document you are in.

Gemini Enterprise is the paid tier of the Gemini app.

It is a different product. Gemini Enterprise searches and reasons across an organisation's own systems and supports custom agents built on that data. The paid consumer tier is Gemini Advanced.

4 questions test this concept

An organisation wants its people to ask questions across its own documents, data and applications, with each person seeing only what their existing permissions allow. Which Google offering is intended for this?

  • AGemini Advanced.
  • BThe Gemini app.
  • CGemini for Google Workspace.
  • DGemini Enterprise.
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