Google's April AI spreadsheet features, previously English-only, are now available in 28 languages for all Workspace and Google One AI Premium subscribers.
Google quietly removed a language barrier from one of its most-used productivity tools today. Gemini in Google Sheets, which debuted its core AI features for English-speaking US users in April, now supports 28 additional languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Arabic. The rollout is live immediately for all eligible accounts.
The April launch was substantive: it gave users the ability to build entire spreadsheets from a text prompt, generate complex formulas automatically, and create pivot tables without prior spreadsheet knowledge. Until today, all of that was English-only. Non-English speakers with Workspace subscriptions had Gemini in name but limited utility in practice.
Expanded access covers every Google Workspace account with Gemini for Workspace enabled, including Business and Enterprise tiers. Google One subscribers on the AI Premium plan are included as well, according to Android Authority, which tested the Spanish functionality ahead of the announcement and confirmed it worked across languages within the same session.
What the expansion means
For multinational teams, the practical implication is real. A user can now prompt Gemini in Spanish, receive a complete spreadsheet, and a colleague can modify it in English in the same session. Google says multilingual collaboration is supported, though specifics around mixed-language mid-session prompting are not publicly documented.
Generating formulas automatically, building pivot tables, and handling data optimization represent hours of manual work for non-technical users. Extending those capabilities to speakers of 28 languages means the effective addressable market for Gemini in Sheets just expanded considerably. Portuguese and Spanish alone cover hundreds of millions of potential business users across Latin America, Spain, and Brazil. Google has not shared what percentage of its Workspace base was previously excluded by the English restriction, but the silence is telling.
The competitive context matters. As Forbes documented earlier this year, AI productivity tools are fighting hard for enterprise adoption, with ChatGPT reporting 800 million monthly active users and $20 billion in annual recurring revenue. Google's decision to deepen Gemini inside Workspace reflects sustained pressure from products that have offered multilingual support longer.
The AI glue problem
Beyond the language announcement, the move highlights a wider architectural debate in enterprise artificial intelligence. Google's strategy embeds AI deeper inside individual apps, while a competing school of thought argues the real value sits between tools. Gradial, a Seattle startup that raised $65 million in a Series C this week, is betting on the latter: its agents span across Salesforce, Databricks, Adobe, and other platforms rather than operating inside any single one, according to SiliconAngle. Google's distribution advantage is significant, but whether Sheets-native AI is sufficient when enterprise data lives across a dozen platforms remains a genuine question.
Reliability across languages is also unresolved. Whether Gemini's accuracy in generating spreadsheet formulas holds in Arabic or Finnish at the same rate as English is something Google has not addressed publicly. That gap is precisely what startups like Pramaana Labs are targeting: the company raised $27 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures this week to build mathematical verification layers for AI outputs in high-stakes sectors, per The Tech Portal. A hallucinated formula in a financial model is exactly the kind of error that formal verification is designed to catch.
Microsoft's Copilot in Excel is building comparable features, and the enterprise spreadsheet market has become one of the more contested arenas in the current wave of artificial intelligence deployment. Whoever converts the most non-English Workspace users into daily AI habits first will have an advantage that compounds through data and lock-in.
The expanded language support is live today. Whether it converts previously sidelined Workspace users into active Gemini adopters, or whether most have already settled into alternative tools, will take at least a few quarters to measure.
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FAQ
What languages does Gemini in Google Sheets now support?
Google added 28 new languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Arabic, and Finnish. The full list is available in Google's official Workspace announcement blog post.
Do I need a paid plan to use Gemini in Google Sheets?
Yes. The feature requires either a Google Workspace account with Gemini for Workspace enabled (Business or Enterprise tiers) or a Google One AI Premium subscription for individual users.
Can Gemini in Sheets handle prompts in multiple languages in one session?
Google says multilingual collaboration is supported. Testing suggests switching between languages within the same spreadsheet works, though Google has not published detailed documentation on mixed-language prompt behavior.
How reliable is Gemini at generating spreadsheet formulas?
Google has not published accuracy benchmarks, particularly for non-English languages. Results should be verified before use in any business-critical or financial model.
