Google Gemini just shipped a set of free features that change how creators and professionals use AI every day. If you want to produce audio, automate repetitive tasks, generate consistent video content, and unlock more powerful AI agents for coding and workflows, these updates are worth exploring right away.
Table of Contents
- What changed and why it matters
- Create Music inside Gemini (Lira is now broadly available)
- Scheduled Actions: Automations that run for you
- VO3.1 Fast Video Templates: Create videos without starting from scratch
- My Stuff: One place for documents and media
- Gemini 3.1 Pro and model guidance
- Practical workflows and examples you can start using
- Best practices and safety
- Tools and learning resources to accelerate adoption
- Suggested images and alt text for content
- Meta information
- Call to action
- FAQ
- Final note
What changed and why it matters
The updates center on five practical areas: a built-in music generator powered by the Lira model, a scheduled actions system for recurring automations, templated video creation (VO3.1 fast), a consolidated media and document hub called My Stuff, and the rollout of new Gemini models including Gemini 3.1 Pro. Together these features reduce friction for creators and teams while increasing consistency and scalability.
Create Music inside Gemini (Lira is now broadly available)
You can generate original music directly from Gemini using the Create Music option. This was previously restricted to lab participants but is now accessible to everyone for free. The experience is simple and surprisingly flexible.
How it works
- Select Create Music in Gemini and pick from suggested prompts or type your own directions.
- Enter details like length, mood, genre, and use case. For example: “30-second upbeat elevator-style background music for YouTube videos”.
- Submit the prompt and Gemini launches the Lira tool to produce the track and auto-generated cover art.
- Download options include MP3 only or a video file with the cover art embedded.
Use cases
- Background music for short-form content, intros, and podcast beds.
- Theme music for brands or channel segments created quickly and repeatedly.
- Custom tracks for prototypes, game jams, or independent projects without licensing complexity.
Practical tips
- Be specific. Include tempo, instruments, mood, and intended audience for cleaner outputs.
- Use the preset suggestions to iterate faster. Gemini will offer prompt improvements as you type.
- Audit outputs for accidental similarity to known songs if you plan to publish commercially.
Scheduled Actions: Automations that run for you
Scheduled Actions brings automation into Gemini in a user-friendly way. Create recurring prompts that run daily, weekly, or monthly at a scheduled time. This turns one-off prompts into persistent assistants that check, report, and even prepare drafts on your schedule.
Key capabilities
- Name and configure a scheduled task with custom instructions.
- Choose frequency: daily, weekly, monthly, and set the exact time and day.
- Receive the result in your chats when the task runs so you can act on it immediately.
Real-world examples
- Sponsored email check: Run a daily check at 9 a.m. to scan for sponsor replies, list unanswered messages, and draft suggested responses.
- Morning digest: A daily pull of AI news or market updates tailored to your interests, with hooks for social posts.
- Content inspiration: A weekly generator that returns 10 topic ideas plus 2 to 3 hooks per platform for Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok.
How to set up a useful scheduled action
- Pick a template or start from scratch.
- Write clear instructions with input sources (for example, connect email or specify which folder to check).
- Choose frequency and time, then turn it on only when you’re ready to act on its outputs.
- Iterate. Refine instructions based on the outputs over the first few runs.
VO3.1 Fast Video Templates: Create videos without starting from scratch
If you create videos, VO3.1 fast templates provide instant style frameworks. Instead of describing style and structure each time, pick a template like “cyberpunk,” “video game,” “ASMR apple,” or “action hero” and feed a few creative parameters.
What templates enable
- Rapid generation of short videos using consistent visual and audio motifs.
- Style-first creation—choose a template then supply the setting and description.
- Faster ideation thanks to ready-made visual grammar for recurring series.
Example workflow
For a “video game” style clip: choose the template, set the location (for example, Big Sky, Montana), add a brief narrative or hook, and let the template produce a 60-second piece with matching landscapes, music, and transitions. It typically generates within one to two minutes.
Why it helps creators
- Consistency: reuse templates for a cohesive brand style.
- Speed: create multiple outputs in the time it would take to concept one.
- Scalability: use templates to spin up series, ad variants, or platform-specific edits.
My Stuff: One place for documents and media
My Stuff aggregates your documents, images, videos, and other media generated inside Gemini. It simplifies retrieval and the management of outputs across multiple chats.
Benefits
- Find everything in one place rather than hunting through dozens of chats.
- Quickly reuse or repurpose assets for new projects or automations.
- Search works as a fallback, but the curated My Stuff view is faster for regular workflows.
How I use it
I keep a folder of recurring assets like channel intro music, thumbnail images, and content templates. When a scheduled action generates content ideas, I pull the assets from My Stuff to assemble multiple platform-ready variants in minutes.
Gemini 3.1 Pro and model guidance
A new model tier has arrived: Gemini 3.1 Pro. It is optimized for two tasks in particular: advanced coding and agentic workflows that require multi-step planning and execution.
When to use 3.1 Pro
- Complex coding requests, debugging, and multi-file scaffolding.
- Agentic tasks where the model must perform step one, step two, step three and link outcomes—like automations with external tools.
What to expect next
A 3.1 Flash release is likely to follow. Flash models frequently offer cost and latency improvements over prior flash versions while often being better at general purpose tasks. When Flash arrives, expect faster, cheaper options for many standard interactions.
Practical workflows and examples you can start using
These workflows combine the new features into repeatable systems you can adopt immediately.
Daily creator workflow
- Schedule a morning content inspiration action that returns today’s AI headlines and 8 platform-ready hooks.
- Pick a hook, generate music with Create Music for the hook’s mood, and save the track to My Stuff.
- Use a VO3.1 fast template to create a short teaser video using the music and a prebuilt thumbnail from My Stuff.
- Publish platform-specific variants over the day and let scheduled actions remind you to follow up with comments or sponsor replies.
Small team automation example
- Automate weekly competitor monitoring with a scheduled action that scrapes headlines, summarizes changes, and stores results in a shared doc.
- Attach a Gemini 3.1 Pro agent to create a prioritized to-do list for product updates and assign tasks inside your project management tool.
Best practices and safety
These tools are powerful, but practical guardrails will make outputs reliable and safe.
- For music, perform a similarity check before commercial release to reduce copyright risk.
- Keep scheduled actions focused and auditable. Record what each scheduled prompt does and who is accountable for its outputs.
- Use templates to ensure brand consistency, but tweak prompts per platform to avoid repetitive content fatigue.
- When using 3.1 Pro for agentic tasks, test on limited scopes first so you understand the decision chain the agent creates.
Tools and learning resources to accelerate adoption
If you want to get hands-on and build automated agents, look for short, practical trainings focused on agent design, prompt engineering, and system integration—especially sessions that demonstrate connecting Sheets, Notion, CRM, and email with AI flows. Seek resources that include templates you can adapt rather than abstract theory.
Suggested study path:
- Start with small automations: scheduled digest, content idea generator, or email triage.
- Advance to agentic tasks: multi-step workflows that read data, write results, and report back.
- Integrate templates and My Stuff to scale across teams and platforms.
Suggested images and alt text for content
- Screenshot of the Create Music interface — alt text: “Gemini Create Music prompt and generated cover art”
- Example of a scheduled action configuration — alt text: “Scheduled Actions setup screen showing frequency and instructions”
- VO3.1 fast video template preview — alt text: “Video template selection menu with style thumbnails”
- My Stuff dashboard — alt text: “My Stuff view showing documents and media thumbnails”
Meta information
Meta description: Explore Google Gemini’s free updates—Create Music with Lira, Scheduled Actions for recurring automations, VO3.1 fast video templates, My Stuff, and Gemini 3.1 Pro for coding and agentic tasks.
Suggested tags: Google Gemini, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Create Music Lira, Scheduled Actions, VO3.1 fast, AI automation, AI agents, content templates.
Call to action
Try the new features: generate a short track, set one scheduled action, and create a templated video to understand how these updates reduce friction. Keep a small experiment log in My Stuff and refine prompts after a few runs. If you want to scale these workflows across a team or product, focus next on agentic tasks with Gemini 3.1 Pro and document the decision steps so results remain auditable and predictable.
FAQ
How do I access Create Music and what does it cost?
Create Music (Lira) is available inside Gemini via the Create Music option. It is currently free to use. You can generate tracks, preview them, and download MP3s or a video file that includes generated cover art.
Can I use the generated music commercially?
Generated music is convenient for prototypes and many content use cases. Before using tracks commercially, perform a similarity review to ensure no close matches to copyrighted material. Check Google’s content and licensing terms for any platform-specific restrictions and keep records of prompts and outputs.
What can Scheduled Actions do and how reliable are they?
Scheduled Actions run user-defined prompts on a schedule and return results into your chats. They are reliable for reporting, idea generation, and simple checks, but complex automations that interact with external APIs should be tested and monitored. Use clear instructions and version-control your scheduled prompt text.
What’s the difference between Gemini 3.1 Pro and Flash?
Gemini 3.1 Pro is tuned for advanced math, coding, and agentic multi-step tasks. Flash models typically prioritize speed and cost efficiency for general use. Flash variants of 3.1 are expected to arrive and may replace older flash models with better performance and lower cost.
How do video templates help with brand consistency?
Templates lock in a visual and auditory style so each output in a series shares the same aesthetic. That reduces creative drift, speeds production, and makes it easier to batch produce assets for different platforms while maintaining a recognizable brand voice.
What should I store in My Stuff?
Save reusable assets: music stems, thumbnails, templates, logos, and reference documents. Store iteration notes and prompt versions as well so you can retrace how a particular output was generated.
Final note
These updates make Google Gemini a more practical, everyday tool for creators and teams. Between free music generation, scheduled automations, templated video creation, and a dedicated hub for assets, the platform now supports end-to-end production workflows without stitching together many separate tools. Combine these features with a disciplined prompt strategy and a few short tests and you can multiply output quality and speed in a matter of days.
This article was created from the video Google Gemini’s New FREE Features Are MIND BLOWING 👀 (New Use Cases) with the help of AI.