Users of Google Meet will be able to request that AI take their place in their virtual meetings.

Google announced Tuesday that new artificial intelligence (AI) tools in its Google Meet video telephony services will be able to «attend» a meeting in the user’s place and take notes.

«With the ‘attend for me’ feature, Duet AI will be able to participate in the meeting in your place, make your message heard and, of course, prepare a summary for you,» the company highlighted in a statement.

Among the new features of Google Meet, which were announced today as part of the Google Cloud Next event, are: closed captioning with automatic translation in 18 languages, note-taking, summarizing and creating clips of the meeting.

Users will also be able to speak privately with a Google chatbot to review details of the conference in progress.

According to Dave Citron, Google’s senior product manager for Meet, there have been three «eras of innovation» for video conferencing.

The first was the pandemic, when many people first used these services; the second was the return to a hybrid work environment; and the third is now, with the advent of AI.

«Now is the inflection point that we reached in the last eight months with LLM language models and broadcast models,» Citron noted.

Google announced today that it will roll out its Duet AI assistant across all of its Workspace apps, including Gmail, Drive, Slides and Docs for a monthly price of $30 (about €27.7) per user, at least for large organizations.

That’s the same price Microsoft charges for its AI system called Copilot, with similar features running in most Office applications.

However, the company did not make public the subscription price.