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 out there as an add-on service. The important thing options of this AI service are detailed under, together with the steps a Google Workspace administrator might want to take to make Duet AI out there to individuals of their group.
Pricing and normal deployment steerage are additionally lined, as the worth of a Duet AI license might exceed the price of many Workspace licenses. As at all times, ensure that any utilization of AI complies along with your group’s insurance policies.
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What options does Duet AI embrace?
Duet AI for Google Workspace provides a wide range of options in every of the next functions, together with:
- Google Docs
- Assist me write (generate textual content)
- Modifying assist: Tone, Summarize, Bulletize, Elaborate, Shorten, Rephrase.
- Proofread: Conciseness, Energetic voice, Wording, Sentence cut up
- Gmail
- Assist me write (generate electronic mail textual content)
- Modifying assist: Formalize, Elaborate, Shorten, I’m feeling fortunate (add artistic particulars)
- Google Slides
- Assist me visualize (listed as a Labs characteristic)
- Google Sheets
- Assist me set up (generate sheet content material)
- Google Meet
- Generate a background (generate photos)
- Translated captions in numerous extra languages
- Studio look
Google plans to offer extra options and features to Duet AI clients sooner or later. Remember the fact 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 offered as a paid add-on service for the next editions of Google Workspace:
- Enterprise Customary or Plus.
- Enterprise Necessities, Customary or Plus.
- Schooling Fundamentals, Customary or Plus.
- Frontline Starter or Customary.
A free trial is offered should 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. For those who pay annually, 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 per thirty days).
Notice: To make use of Duet AI, you have to be not less than 18 years previous.
How you can add Duet AI in Google Workspace
For those who’re a Google Workspace administrator, you will want to finish two units of steps to activate Duet AI for individuals in your group. You first choose the service and fee plan, after which add the service to a number of accounts.
Choose your Duet AI plan
Earlier than you may assign Duet AI licenses to accounts, you first want so as to add Duet AI as a subscription choice.
- Register 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 choice provides entry to the free trial and paid choices.
Determine B
- Evaluation the final data 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 and choose Checkout (Determine E).
Determine E
- Evaluation your chosen plan, after which choose Place Order (Determine F).
Determine F
- Chances are you’ll overview out there 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 traditional 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 reveals 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., verify 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 may 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 lively, a short Duet AI informational field will show when an individual goes to every of the activated Duet AI functions on the internet (e.g., Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets and Google Meet). Individuals might then use Duet AI options.
Duet AI’s enterprise advantages and deployment steerage
If value shouldn’t be a priority, go forward and deploy Duet AI to everybody in your group instantly. This lets individuals benefit from all Duet AI options.
Most IT leaders will seemingly need to deploy some Duet AI licenses so that folks within the group can experiment and be taught what Duet AI provides to straightforward Google Workspace performance. For this objective, you’ll finances for a variety 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 may be made for Duet AI writing and translation options. Anybody who writes with Google Docs or Gmail will seemingly discover the modifying and generative textual content options useful. And individuals who in any other case would possibly depend on completely different translation strategies might worth the expanded language translation capabilities in Google Meet. Organizations would possibly prioritize the deployment of Duet AI for individuals and groups who want translation providers and for individuals who write frequently (e.g., PR, advertising and marketing and grant writers).
Point out or message me on Mastodon (@awolber) to let me know in case your group has activated Duet AI. If that’s the case, is Duet AI out there to everybody? What options of Duet AI do you discover most helpful?