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.”

A task has a due date and a sense of progression. It can be marked complete; an email cannot. By turning emails into tasks, you don't just reorganize your inbox; you also convert your intent into an actionable structure. The approach also scales well. Be it a handful of emails a day or a hundred, the process remains the same.

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,