Does Google Meet have an AI companion?

If you went looking for an AI Companion inside Google Meet and came up empty, the name is the whole problem. This section sorts out which vendor calls its assistant what, then describes what Google's version actually does in a call. Three platforms, three brand names, one broadly similar feature set.

Zoom calls its in-meeting assistant AI Companion. Microsoft calls its Microsoft Teams assistant Copilot. Google calls its version Gemini in Google Meet, which is why a search for a Google Meet AI Companion returns nothing official.

What Gemini does inside a Google Meet call:

• Automatic note-taking, with a written summary shared after the call ends
• Live captions, plus translated captions for cross-language meetings
• A side panel where a participant can ask about what has been said so far

Access is tied to the Google Workspace plan on the account running the meeting, so two people sitting in the same call can have different features available.

Control sits with the account hosting the meeting. If the interviewer's employer has a Workspace plan that includes these features, the interviewer can turn note-taking on. As a candidate joining from a personal Google account, you cannot enable it for yourself inside their meeting.

Google Meet does not run the feature silently. While note-taking is active, Meet shows an on-screen indicator to everyone in the call, in the same spirit as the marker for an active recording. Treat a Google Meet interview as a conversation that may be transcribed and summarized for the hiring team, and answer accordingly.

That visibility cuts both ways. It is a fair privacy signal for participants, and it also rules Gemini out as a private aid, because anything it produces lands in the meeting's shared notes rather than on your side of the screen. How SubcueAI handles interview audio and transcripts is documented on the security page.

Gemini in Meet is built for the meeting record, not for one participant's performance. It summarizes what was said. It does not draft the answer you are about to give, and it has no view of your resume or the job description.

Consider a product manager interviewing for a senior role at a mid-size SaaS company. She joins the Google Meet round and watches the note-taking banner appear. Gemini will faithfully record that she stalled on the pricing-strategy question. It will not help her structure the answer while she is stalling. Those are opposite jobs.

A candidate-side assistant is the opposite design. SubcueAI runs on your own machine: the native macOS and Windows app captures both system audio and your microphone and puts suggestions in a floating local overlay, while the browser extension's Side Panel does live assist on Chromium browsers by capturing the meeting tab's audio only, which is the interviewer's side and not your voice. No meeting bot joins the call, and nothing is injected into the Google Meet page. Setup for either surface is walked through on the tutorial page.

No assistant, Google's or anyone else's, changes these constraints:

• Screen sharing. If you share your entire screen, an overlay on that screen is part of what you shared.
• Recording. A recorded call captures whatever was visible in the shared content.
• Proctored assessments. Remote-proctoring software inspects the machine directly and is out of scope for any overlay tool.
• Company-managed devices. On a laptop the hiring company administers, assume installed software is inventoried.

The detectability questions candidates actually ask, including what an interviewer sees on a shared screen, are collected on the detectability hub.