Gemini can now summarize responses in Google Forms

Over the past few months, Google has been aggressively pushing Gemini AI into every corner of its Workspace suite of apps, like generating entire documents from a prompt in Google Docs or creating editable charts in Sheets. Now, the AI ​​capabilities are coming to Google Forms, too. The latest update introduces a feature that uses Gemini to automatically summarize text responses.

For any form with short answer or paragraph questions, a new 'Summarize responses' button will appear in the 'Responses' tab after you collect more than three responses. Clicking this button will trigger Gemini to read the form title, questions, and all submitted text to provide a summary of the main topics.

While Google is touting this as a new expansion into Forms, Gemini has actually been on the platform for a while now, thanks to its 'Help me create a form' feature that helps draft questions for users and has been rolled out through Google's Workspace Labs program. For those unfamiliar, Workspace Labs is essentially Google's public testing ground, available in select countries, for new and sometimes untested AI tools before they're released to the public.

Once a summary is created, you can copy it to use elsewhere or hit 'Retry' to see if Gemini comes up with a different approach. If new answers appear after you've created the summary, you can click the 'Refresh' button to update with the latest data.

Currently, Summarize responses is only available in English. To use it, you need access to a paid Google Workspace plan, such as Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, or Enterprise Plus. The feature is also available to customers who pay for Google AI Pro and Ultra plans or specific Gemini Education add-on packages. Summarize responses has begun rolling out gradually to Rapid Release domains and will begin rolling out to Scheduled Release domains on June 26.