<story><title>Duet AI for Google Workspace Now Available</title><url>https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/duet-ai-in-workspace-now-available</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cj</author><text>&amp;gt; Today we’re making Duet AI for Google Workspace generally available&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;generally available&amp;quot; bit doesn&amp;#x27;t sound accurate. To activate it, you need to submit a &amp;quot;Request a trial&amp;quot; form.&lt;p&gt;For every other Google Workspace feature in GA, billing, subscriptions, and feature settings is available self-serve in Google Workspace Admin.&lt;p&gt;This is the first &amp;quot;generally available&amp;quot; feature I&amp;#x27;ve seen that&amp;#x27;s still hidden behind a &amp;quot;request access&amp;quot; form after being called &amp;quot;generally available&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty surprised that Google is breaking their own use of the &amp;quot;GA&amp;quot; terminology. General Availability has a pretty specific meaning to anyone who manages Google Workspace for a company, and the way they&amp;#x27;re rolling out Duet is not how they typically roll out new features.&lt;p&gt;Which leaves me wondering if this is more of a fluff piece. Has anyone actually gotten access to Duet yet?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I really wonder if this is just a reaction to the Enterprise ChatGPT announcement. TBH, I was excited when I saw this headline. But to your point, has anything actually changed? Duet has been invite-only for a while now, and another user in the comments (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=37309367&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=37309367&lt;/a&gt;) said they requested access in April and still can&amp;#x27;t get in.&lt;p&gt;Is Google&amp;#x27;s product org just a total dumpster fire? How can you put out a blog post saying a previously invite-only product is GA, but then have the product still be invite only?</text></comment>
<story><title>Duet AI for Google Workspace Now Available</title><url>https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/duet-ai-in-workspace-now-available</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cj</author><text>&amp;gt; Today we’re making Duet AI for Google Workspace generally available&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;generally available&amp;quot; bit doesn&amp;#x27;t sound accurate. To activate it, you need to submit a &amp;quot;Request a trial&amp;quot; form.&lt;p&gt;For every other Google Workspace feature in GA, billing, subscriptions, and feature settings is available self-serve in Google Workspace Admin.&lt;p&gt;This is the first &amp;quot;generally available&amp;quot; feature I&amp;#x27;ve seen that&amp;#x27;s still hidden behind a &amp;quot;request access&amp;quot; form after being called &amp;quot;generally available&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty surprised that Google is breaking their own use of the &amp;quot;GA&amp;quot; terminology. General Availability has a pretty specific meaning to anyone who manages Google Workspace for a company, and the way they&amp;#x27;re rolling out Duet is not how they typically roll out new features.&lt;p&gt;Which leaves me wondering if this is more of a fluff piece. Has anyone actually gotten access to Duet yet?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shepardrtc</author><text>&amp;gt; Which leaves me wondering if this is more of a fluff piece&lt;p&gt;I feel like everything is becoming a fluff piece these days.  Hypebeasts for everything seems to be the trend.</text></comment>