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Google Adds an AI Tool for Set Choices

The tool chooses from options that a developer provides.

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Source: Google DeepMind, 2026-11-11.

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In this lesson: Identify supplied options and the input types the tool accepts.

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Read and understand · 1/2Who provides possible answers?

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Developers. The first paragraph says developers give questions and possible answers.

Clue: Google introduced its Gemini Decisions API on November 11. Developers can give it questions and possible answers.

Read and understand · 2/2How does the tool produce its result?

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It scores the options. The second paragraph contrasts option scoring with writing an answer.

Clue: The tool scores those options instead of writing a new answer word by word. It can work with text, pictures, audio, video and PDF files.

Grammar in this story: A contrast in method

instead of writing

Instead of is followed here by an -ing form and contrasts scoring with writing.

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Explain what a developer supplies and what the tool does.

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A developer supplies questions and possible answers. The tool scores those options and can work with several input types, including text and pictures.

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