Google Meet is Google's video communications service, offered as part of Google Workspace, that lets users host and join browser- or app-based video meetings with chat, captions, recording, and AI assistance.
Google Meet is a video communications service developed by 📝Google and offered as part of the Google Workspace productivity suite. It runs in the browser without a download and through dedicated mobile apps, letting users start or join both scheduled and ad-hoc video meetings. The service originated in 2017 as the enterprise-oriented successor to Google Hangouts and was opened to all account holders in 2020.
Meetings support live captions, noise cancellation, virtual backgrounds, breakout rooms, polls, in-meeting chat, and Q&A, with recordings saved to Google Drive. Higher Workspace tiers raise limits to as many as 1,000 participants and sessions of up to 24 hours. Gemini, Google's AI assistant, can take meeting notes, generate summaries, and provide real-time speech translation, while tight links to Google Calendar and Gmail handle scheduling and joining and allow live collaboration on Docs, Sheets, and Slides during a call.
As a meeting platform Google Meet competes most directly with 📝Zoom and 📝Microsoft Teams, and it offers limited device interoperability with Teams meeting-room hardware.