Admins in lots of organizations that use Google Workspace can now activate and add Duet AI to firm accounts by following these steps.
Google introduced in late August 2023 that Duet AI for Google Workspace had been made typically accessible as an add-on service. The important thing options of this AI service are detailed beneath, together with the steps a Google Workspace administrator might want to take to make Duet AI accessible to individuals of their group.
Pricing and common deployment steering are additionally coated, as the worth of a Duet AI license could exceed the price of many Workspace licenses. As all the time, be certain that any utilization of AI complies along with your group’s insurance policies.
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What options does Duet AI embody?
Duet AI for Google Workspace affords a wide range of options in every of the next functions, together with:
- Google Docs
- Assist me write (generate textual content)
- Enhancing assist: Tone, Summarize, Bulletize, Elaborate, Shorten, Rephrase.
- Proofread: Conciseness, Lively voice, Wording, Sentence break up
- Gmail
- Assist me write (generate e-mail textual content)
- Enhancing assist: Formalize, Elaborate, Shorten, I’m feeling fortunate (add artistic particulars)
- Google Slides
- Assist me visualize (listed as a Labs function)
- Google Sheets
- Assist me arrange (generate sheet content material)
- Google Meet
- Generate a background (generate pictures)
- Translated captions in numerous extra languages
- Studio look
Google plans to offer extra options and capabilities to Duet AI clients sooner or later. Remember that the generative AI options are nonetheless in growth and won’t essentially ship factual content material.
How a lot does Duet AI value?
As of September 2023, Duet AI is on the market as a paid add-on service for the next editions of Google Workspace:
- Enterprise Normal or Plus.
- Enterprise Necessities, Normal or Plus.
- Schooling Fundamentals, Normal or Plus.
- Frontline Starter or Normal.
A free trial is on the market in case you want to experiment with Duet AI for 14 days.
Duet AI prices $36 per account when paid month-to-month, which supplies you the best month-to-month flexibility and annualizes to an expenditure of $432 per account per 12 months. If you happen to pay yearly, you’ll pay $360 per account per 12 months, which supplies you a little bit of financial savings when calculated month-to-month (e.g., the equal of $30 monthly).
Be aware: To make use of Duet AI, you should be at the very least 18 years previous.
add Duet AI in Google Workspace
If you happen to’re a Google Workspace administrator, you will have to finish two units of steps to activate Duet AI for individuals in your group. You first choose the service and cost plan, after which add the service to a number of accounts.
Choose your Duet AI plan
Earlier than you’ll be able to assign Duet AI licenses to accounts, you first want so as to add Duet AI as a subscription possibility.
- Sign up to the Admin console.
- Choose Billing | Get Extra Providers (Determine A).
Determine A
- From the Google Workspace add-ons class, select Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise (Determine B). The Begin Free Trial possibility affords entry to the free trial and paid choices.
Determine B
- Assessment the final info supplied about Duet AI, after which choose Get Began (Determine C).
Determine C
- Choose one of many three choices: Trial plan, Versatile plan or Annual plan (Determine D).
Determine D
- Scroll to the underside of the display screen and choose Checkout (Determine E).
Determine E
- Assessment your chosen plan, after which choose Place Order (Determine F).
Determine F
- It’s possible you’ll overview accessible licenses within the Admin console’s Billing | Subscriptions part (Determine G).
Determine G
Assign Duet AI licenses
Subsequent, you might add the Duet AI license to your Google Workspace accounts. As common with Google Workspace licenses, you might add licenses to all accounts, to all accounts inside an organizational unit or to individually chosen accounts. The next exhibits how one can add the Duet AI to a person account.
- Choose a number of accounts to which you need to add a Duet AI license (e.g., test the field to the left of the account, as proven) after which choose the Assign Licenses button from the menu (Determine H).
Determine H
- From the menu that shows, select Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise after which Assign (Determine I); this provides the service to the account. You’ll be billed based mostly on the license you chose earlier, as indicated.
Determine I
The Duet AI service can be added to the account. As soon as it’s energetic, a short Duet AI informational field will show when an individual goes to every of the activated Duet AI functions on the net (e.g., Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets and Google Meet). Folks could then use Duet AI options.
Duet AI’s enterprise advantages and deployment steering
If value is just not a priority, go forward and deploy Duet AI to everybody in your group instantly. This lets individuals make the most of all Duet AI options.
Most IT leaders will doubtless need to deploy some Duet AI licenses so that individuals within the group can experiment and study what Duet AI provides to straightforward Google Workspace performance. For this function, you’ll funds for plenty of month-to-month Duet AI licenses, assign the licenses to individuals for short-term testing, after which re-assign the licenses to completely different individuals after a month or months of testing.
As of September 2023, the strongest enterprise case might be made for Duet AI writing and translation options. Anybody who writes with Google Docs or Gmail will doubtless discover the modifying and generative textual content options useful. And individuals who in any other case may depend on completely different translation strategies could worth the expanded language translation capabilities in Google Meet. Organizations may prioritize the deployment of Duet AI for individuals and groups who want translation companies and for individuals who write regularly (e.g., PR, advertising and grant writers).
Point out or message me on Mastodon (@awolber) to let me know in case your group has activated Duet AI. In that case, is Duet AI accessible to everybody? What options of Duet AI do you discover most helpful?