The world’s largest email service just initiated step one in a larger plan to secure Google as your favorite AI platform.

Gmail's new feature will soon organize important emails into to-dos and topics, so you don't miss anything important.

The aim is to transform Gmail from a traditional inbox into what Google describes as a “personal, proactive inbox assistant.”

AI Overviews first appeared in Gmail last year to summarize email chains, and now it’s expanding to Gmail search. This is closer to the AI Overview experience to which you are accustomed in Google’s web search. You can enter a natural language search, and the robot churns through your messages to generate a response.

Google is turning Gmail into something closer to a personal briefing room than a traditional inbox, using generative AI to read and summarize your messages for you. The new AI Inbox promises to surface what matters,