Google continues to roll out more AI-powered features in its workspace productivity applications.

At its Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas, the company on Tuesday said Google Workspace subscribers will be able to click voice prompts for AI-powered "Help me write" within Gmail, among other on-the-go moments. Additionally, Google will bring to Workspace an extension for Gmail, called Smart Compose, that can turn rough email drafts into something much smoother.

First, these features will go to paying subscribers. Asked about that in a press conference ahead of Tuesday's announcements, Google's Aparna Pappu pointed out that the company has "a long history of doing really useful, high-utility features with AI for all our users — including smart reply and smart compose. As we figure out how these work and get feedback from our users, we'll consider expanding it to all our users.".

Workspace, Google estimated had around 3 billion users and more than 10 million paying customers was one of the first Google services to lean into the AI boom.

Along with all this new AI, Google is adding a few other capabilities to the Workspace suite. These include the ability for Sheets to send out customizable notifications when some field changes. Plus Sheets is getting a new set of templates to make it easier to get started with a new spreadsheet.

And Docs, Google's browser-based MS Word competitor, is gaining tab support so "you can organize information in a single document instead of linking to multiple documents or searching through Drive to find what you're looking for." That's a nice little feature and could be really helpful for workflows where you'd otherwise copypasta a bunch of documents into one long one.

Docs is also getting full-bleed cover images, and for those really large companies that use Workspace, Chat can now handle up to 500,000 members. Messaging interoperability with Slack and Teams is now an option, thanks to Google's partnership with Mio.