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Have you ever looked up something for school or work and ended up with a wall of text? Or filled a spreadsheet with AI-generated answers and wondered where they came from? Google's two recent updates to Gemini target both situations.
Explore a topic one layer at a time
Gemini is Google's AI assistant (a program you chat with by typing or speaking). Google has added a library of immersive explorations: interactive scenes you move through layer by layer, from very large scales, like planets and deep space, down to molecules and atoms.
Google's examples include tracing trade routes on the Silk Road, looking inside a jet engine, and studying the physics of lightning. Each scene splits into interactive "nodes." You tap a layer to dig deeper, and each one comes with a guided explanation.
According to Google, the library is in the Gemini student hub, reached through the Students option in the Gemini app menu, or at gemini.google.com/immersive-explorations. Google says audio narration for each layer is coming soon, and that explorations will later be available directly inside a chat with Gemini.
The feature works on web and mobile in English, Indonesian, Hindi, Brazilian Portuguese, French, and simplified Chinese. Other languages currently get an English-only version, and Google says more languages are coming.
Check AI-generated data in Sheets
Google Sheets is the spreadsheet app in Google Workspace (the bundle of work and school tools that includes Docs and Gmail). Gemini can fill cells for you using its AI function, the feature that generates values in a spreadsheet from your instructions.
Google now attaches the exact web sources to each individual cell. That means you can see where a value came from, check it, and compare it with other sources. Google says this helps you audit and verify AI-generated data.
Google also says the update speeds things up. It reports that, in an internal study with 95 participants, the feature was up to 55 times faster than manual entry on a 500-cell task using English prompts. It can now handle up to 3,000 cells in one request. Treat those numbers as Google's own test results, not guarantees for your spreadsheet.
Wrap-up
Google's two updates have a shared lesson: AI is most useful when you can see its work. Explore a topic layer by layer to understand it, and check the sources behind generated data before you trust it. Today, open the Gemini student hub or visit gemini.google.com/immersive-explorations, and tap into one topic you've always wanted to understand.