According to a press release, "now, all of the company’s three billion-plus existing users across consumer, enterprise, and education have access to the full Google Workspace experience.".
You'll have to turn on Google Chat in Gmail to enable this integrated experience, which frankly might not feel like a big change since free accounts already had access to things like Drive and Docs.But Workspace brings with it features like smart suggestions in emails or documents, the ability to @-mention other users to add them to tasks and present Google Docs, Sheets or Slides directly within your Meet calls. .
Companion Mode, which was previewed at last month's Google I/O, will let meeting participants access features like polls, in-meeting chat, hand-raising, Q&A, live captions and more regardless of the device they're using.