UPDATED 16:43 EDT / MARCH 12 2020

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G Suite passes 2 billion users as Google plots to broaden Smart Compose

Google LLC’s G Suite has passed 2 billion monthly active users, 14 years after the first version of the productivity suite rolled out.

Javier Soltero, the vice president of G Suite at Google, disclosed the milestone in an interview with Axios published today. Soltero said his group quietly hit the 2 billion user mark late last year.

The update comes about 13 months after Google divulged that more than 5 million businesses have paid G Suite subscriptions. For perspective, Microsoft reported 200 million monthly active business users for Office 365 when it posted earnings in October, plus more than 37 million consumer adopters.

Google’s Soltero offered a glimpse into the G Suite feature roadmap in the Axios interview. The executive said that “we still have work to do” when it comes to integrating the different services in the suite with one another. Additionally, Soltero said users can expect to see G Suite’s Smart Compose feature come to more products.

Smart Compose uses machine learning to provide sentence autofill suggestions in Gmail messages and Google Docs documents. Soltero didn’t say which G Suite services could receive Smart Compose but one possible candidate is Hangouts Chat, the bundle’s team messaging tool. Google is reportedly also building a new business chat app that will integrate features from Hangouts and other services, including Google.

On top of its product development efforts, the search giant is investing in basic research to develop new types of artificial intelligence that can enhance its offerings. One such Google initiative seeks to extend predictive AI beyond use cases such as autofill suggestions that anticipate how a sentence will continue to more complex forecasts. The initiative has produced VideoBERT, an AI model that can watch a video and extrapolate what will happen a few seconds into the future.

Google’s combined revenue from G Suite and Google Cloud rose 53% last quarter, to $2.61 billion.

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