Top Ten for Writers and Creators
Google is out with a torrent of new AI tools and updates designed to charm writers and creators looking for the utmost in creativity and productivity.
Many of the tools can be especially powerful, given that they’re part of the Google ‘ecosystem,’ and can be easily connected with a number of other Google tools for added performance.
Here are the top ten you’ll want to check-out:
*Doc’s Live: Create and Edit Docs With Your Voice: While AI voice-to-text apps have been around for a while, Google takes this capability a step further by enabling you to create a Google doc with your voice – and pull relevant data for that doc from your Gmail, Google Drive, Google Chat and the Web.
Promised for sometime this summer, Doc’s Live invites you to simply talk and then does the rest by helping you brainstorm, organize your thoughts and structure your document.
Planned for release to Google AI Pro and Google Ultra subscribers, Doc’s Live is also promising to help you tweak the writing style of your doc to your personal preference.
*Ask YouTube: Dig Deeper for Knowledge-Gems on Video: Writers looking to get a better grasp of what YouTube videos have to offer will want to check out this new tool, designed to enable you to do much more complex searches on YouTube.
Each ‘Ask YouTube’ search query will trigger creation of a compilation of relevant videos across YouTube’s entire catalogue, including long-form videos and shorts.
You’ll need a YouTube Premium subscription for the service – which also removes all those ads that YouTube drops into videos.
*Google Pics: A New AI-Powered Designer: Promised for release this summer, Google Pics is a new AI-powered design tool for creating slides, social media posts, business logos, digital brochures, infographics and similar.
Special features include the ability to edit the specific design and text of your work with precision, as well as the ability to integrate Google Pics with Google Workspace.
When available, you’ll need a Google AI Pro or Google AI Ultra subscription to use Google Pics.
*Daily Brief: The Overnight Organizer for Your Life: While the quality of AI agent work varies significantly, Google is promising that its new Daily Brief AI agent will hit a home run for you.
Designed to organize and prioritize your day, Daily Brief – currently available to all Google AI subscribers (18+) in the Gemini app – is a personalized digest that keeps track of your key goals and suggests the next steps for getting there.
Intriguingly, the AI agent works overnight, analyzing your inbox, calendar and tasks while — in a perfect world — connecting all the dots across your life.
*Gemini Spark: An Army of AI Agents Working for You: Promised for release sometime this summer, Gemini Spark is Google’s answer to OpenClaw – an Open Source program that uses multiple AI agents to complete an ongoing series of tasks for you in background.
Such a system – which can be programmed to make decisions for you such as making purchases, sending automated emails, engaging in ongoing research and setting up a flight booking – can be tricky to get right.
Ergo, Google is promising to be extra careful with this one before releasing it wide.
*Google Search Agents: 24/7, Continually Updated Monitoring and Analysis: While my own experience with AI search agents has been mixed – I find they like to make-up citations or simply don’t work as advertised – Google is promising this new issue of search agents will be different.
Ideally, Google’s search agents can take any question dream up and run with it, relentlessly scouring blogs, news sites, social media posts and more to return with regular, synthesized updates relevant to your query.
You can use search agents, for example, to scan the Web for new stories on Open Source AI models that offer the greatest creativity when it comes to writing.
*AI Inbox: Yet Another Email Inbox Organizer: Granted, there seem to be any number of AI tools promising to make email processing a breeze, but Google believes this one is extra special.
Essentially, this upgraded version of AI Inbox – already available for Google AI Ultra subscribers and rolling out to Google AI Plus and Google AI Pro subscribers — is designed to surface the emails that matter most to you each day and prioritize you To-Dos.
AI Inbox will also generate personalized email replies – for your approval — based on contextual information.
Plus, this summer, Google is promising that Google AI Pro and Google Ultra subscribers will be able to use AI Inbox to “talk” to their Gmail without being forced to dig through conversational threads.
*New Gemini 3.5 Flash: AI for the Down and Dirty: While you’ll want to use Google 3.1 Pro for answers that require deeper reasoning and more thoughtful replies, this Flash upgrade for Gemini is for those looking for fast answers that may be a little rough around the edges.
Google is also promising that the new Gemini 3.5 Flash is perfect for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks.
Meanwhile, Gemini 3.5 Pro – Flash’s heftier cousin – is promised for release sometime in June 2026.
*Gemini Omni Flash: Google’s New Spin on Video Creation: Back in the ‘olden days’ – i.e., last week – we were limited to creating video with AI by using a text input.
No more. With Gemini Omni Flash, you can ideally feed Gemini AI any type of input – text, images, audio or video – and the tool will output video for you.
Moreover, videos can be created by adding text instructions regarding what you’re looking for. Or, you can get things going with a conversational interface that pops up when you simply enter a raw input with no instructions.
Available for AI Plus, AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, Gemini Omni Flash includes an improved intuitive understanding of forces like gravity, kinetic energy and fluid dynamics, allowing you to create more realistic scenes, according to Koray Kavukcuoglu, a chief AI architect at Google.
*The Whole Kit-and-Kaboodle: Other interesting, new AI and AI upgrades from Google of interest to writers include Personal Intelligence, Google Flow, Google Antigravity, SynthID and Neural Expressive.
You can grab the skinny on all those – as well as a full overview on virtually every important news-making new AI from Google — at “100 Things We Announced at I/O 2026.”
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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.