Gmail’s AI Inbox is now more widely available but will cost you | Infinium-tech

If you’ve been waiting for AI Inbox to become more widely available in Gmail, today is the day. It was initially available only to “trusted testers” in January, but has now been rolled out to anyone in the US. However, there is one huge caveat.

It is currently only available with a Google AI Ultra subscription, which costs $249.99 per month. There’s also a small caveat that it’s labeled as beta, but then again Gmail itself was in beta for several years, so it’s probably less relevant.

As you can see from the screenshot above, the AI ​​Inbox isn’t actually an inbox – it’s a summary of what you need to see based on the emails you receive. The AI ​​gives you a list of suggested tasks from your inbox, as well as “topics to grab.”

Of course, you need to trust Gemini (which is apparently powering this feature) that it won’t leave anything important out, or create anything. This is no small question these days – maybe AI will get better at being trustworthy over time, but we’re not there yet.

It’s unclear at this point whether Google plans to introduce AI Inbox to customers with cheaper AI plans at some point in the future or whether it will remain a differentiating factor for the most expensive subscriptions forever. It will probably be the former, but there is no official confirmation yet.

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