2.6.5

Released October 30, 2026, with desktop app version 1.1.0.

Long chats compact so you can keep going, Drive folders share the way you choose, and you can follow records and tasks to hear when they change. Plus skills you create from chat or that step in on their own, connectors you choose per chat, leaving a Cloud, leaving and rejoining shared chats and projects, a friendlier first chat, a new Plans page, Teams in beta, and dozens of fixes.

Skills improvements

• Create a skill from chat: Ask Emerge.ai to make a skill, and it appears in the chat for you to review first. Edit its name, description, instructions, and whether it's personal or for the whole Cloud, then click Create skill
• Skills that step in on their own: In Cloud Settings → Skills, turn on a skill's Automatic switch and Emerge.ai uses it whenever a request matches its description. With it off, the skill waits until you type / and pick it. Only the skill's creator, a Cloud Owner, or a Cloud Administrator can change the switch
• Skills bring their apps: When an automatic skill names one of your apps, that app switches on for the chat when the skill runs

Folder sharing in Drive (New Feature)

• Choose what a folder's sharing covers: When you share a folder in Drive, choose to share the folder only, the folder and everything you own in it, or the folder and items you pick
• Teammates' files keep their own sharing: Items other people added to a folder are left as they set them
• New files follow the folder: Uploads, new folders, and new documents inside a shared folder take its sharing, and you stay the owner
• Moving between folders: Moving something into a folder that's shared differently asks whether to apply the folder's sharing or keep the item's own
• Narrowing access, clearly: If a change removes people, you're told first, and anything they added goes back to their My Files
• Shortcuts to files you don't own: Choose Add shortcut from the menu on someone else's file or folder to place a link to it in your own Drive. Move or delete the shortcut without touching the original

Notifications and following (New Feature)

• Follow a record or task: Click Follow at the top of a record, contact, company, or task to get a notification whenever it's updated or deleted. Click the notification to open it
• Task updates come to you: You hear when a task is assigned to you, completed, reopened, put on hold, marked high priority, has its due date changed, or is deleted
• Know when you're mentioned: Mentioning someone in a group or project chat sends them a notification

Chats that keep going (New Feature)

Your best work happens in your longest conversations: the project you've built up over weeks, the research thread with every source in it, the document you've revised a dozen times. Compaction keeps the AI working from the whole story as those chats grow.

• Carry everything forward: Compacting a chat sums up its older messages so the AI keeps the full picture and has room for what comes next. Type /compact in the message box to do it anytime
• Nothing disappears from view: Every message stays on your screen. A "Chat compacted by…" line in the conversation marks where it happened, and you can open the summary there to see what the AI is working from
• The details are still there: When the AI needs something specific from earlier, like a figure, a name, or a decision, it searches the original messages and finds it
• Always know where you stand (Beta): Turn on beta features and a small ring in the message box fills up as the chat grows. Click it to see how much room is left and what's using it. From 70% full, it shows a Compact button
• Room when you need it: As a chat gets close to full, a note above the message box lets you know, with a Compact button right there. If a chat runs out of room, it compacts itself, and you send your message again once it's done

Connector improvements

• Choose connectors per chat: Click the people at the top of a chat to open its Members window, then use the new Connectors tab to turn a connector on or off for that chat only. Your other chats keep their own settings
• Slack: Message times show in your time zone, newest first, and searches can rank by relevance
• Microsoft Teams: Ask for today's messages or a group chat by name, and Teams chats come from the Teams connector when you have both it and Microsoft 365 connected

Drive improvements

• Chat with a whole folder: Choose Chat from a folder's menu in Drive to start a new chat with up to 25 of its files attached. Remove any you don't need before you send
• Sort by any column: Click the Name, Owner, Size, Access, or Created heading in Drive to sort by it
• Change sharing from the list: For files and folders you own, click the sharing level in the Access column to change who can see it
• Filter by more than one type: The file-type buttons above your files let you pick several at once, like Word and PDF, in your Drive and when browsing a connected Google Drive, OneDrive, or Microsoft 365. A new MD filter finds Markdown files
• Word files preview in the app: Word documents open in the preview without leaving Emerge.ai
• Easier to find your way: Drive's sidebar is grouped into My Drive, Shared, and Connectors. When you move a file, the folder list separates My Folders from Shared Folders and marks the ones you can only view

AI improvements

• Auto stays steady: Auto, the model choice that picks for you, chooses a model for the chat and keeps it, moving up to a stronger one only when a question needs it
• Assign tasks from chat: Type @@Tasks in a chat and ask it to assign several people or everyone. Assignees and owners come from your Cloud's members, and if a name matches nobody or more than one person, you're asked first
• Tagging from chat: Emerge.ai can add and remove tags, creates a tag that doesn't exist yet, and checks with you first when a new name looks like one you already have. Its tags show on records and tasks right away

A new Plans page (Improvement)

• For you or for your team: Switch between "For you" and "For teams" to see the plans that fit, with a Recommended pick and an about-per-day price
• See what upgrading adds: The page lays out unlimited AI with Emerge Fast & Free, Lockdown Mode, local models, Apps, and Clouds for clients. After you reach your plan's daily or weekly limit, chat continues on Emerge Fast & Free with no usage cap. Fair use applies
• Compare and decide: A Compare plans table and answers to common questions sit on the same page

A friendlier first chat (Improvement)

• A hello from Brie: A new account's first chat opens with a short welcome and a tour of chat and projects, Drive, Contacts, Tasks, Apps, models, connectors, and settings. Pause it and pick it up later
• Ideas to start from: Write a document, Draft an email, and Make a plan sit under the message box for new accounts
• Need some ideas?: This button under the message box opens a full list of starting points — documents, writing, research, and more. Pick one and it fills in the message box for you to edit
• What Brie should call you: Set a Nickname in your profile settings

Leave, rejoin, and archive (New Feature)

• Leave a Cloud: Cloud Settings → General has a "Leave this cloud" option. A Cloud Owner transfers ownership first
• Step away from shared chats and projects: Choose Leave from the menu of a chat or project shared with everyone. Opening it again offers a Rejoin button
• One page for what you've put aside: Settings → General → "Chats and projects" opens Archived and Left views, each with search, a type filter, and Restore or Rejoin for one item or many at once
• From the sidebar: The menu beside each chat in the sidebar now includes Export Chat and Leave

Chat and app improvements

• Chat without AI: Choose Off in the model menu to turn the AI off for a chat, so you can talk with people or jot down notes
• Copy a project's link: Choose Copy Link from the menu beside a project in the sidebar, or on the project's home page
• Help without leaving the app: Support in your profile menu opens a Support page with help articles, popular topics, and a way to email the team

Teams (New Feature, Beta)

• Message your teammates: Teams, in the bar on the far left of the app, lets you message one person or a whole team of up to 100 people in your Cloud, or keep a private chat with yourself for notes
• Ask Brie in the conversation: Type @Brie in a message and the AI answers in the thread for everyone to see, with apps and connectors there too
• React, reply, and edit: React with an emoji, reply with the original quoted, edit or delete your own messages, and share files and screenshots
• Stay on top of it: An unread count on the Teams icon, an Unread filter and pinned chats in the Teams list, and notifications when someone messages, mentions, replies, or reacts. Mute a chat and you still hear about mentions
• Start with a tour: A Teams home page greets you with what's new, your recent chats and people, and a short tour you can replay

Emerge.ai Desktop (Beta)

• Teams alerts: Teams messages show as system notifications, with an unread count on the dock or taskbar icon
• Local models read the links you share: Paste a link and a local model can read that page, fetched from your own computer

Bug fixes

• Files and Drive: AI documents and files appear in a chat's and project's Files tab as soon as they're made, including when you stop a response early, "Add to My Files" saves from a chat, and protected or older Office files upload
• Documents: Images keep their place when the AI resizes or edits around them, and refreshing a chat opens a document's latest version
• Chats and projects: Each sender shows with their own profile name and photo, shared projects offer Leave on their home page, and "Share with everyone" stays on when you go back to the people list on the New Chat screen
• Message box: The one-time upload notice stays dismissed, attached files sit in one row and clear when you send, and the list of people stays open as you edit an @ mention
• Notifications and plans: Notifications load for people in many Clouds, and Lockdown Mode can be switched on during a trial
• Account security: Signing out clears your drafts and saved Cloud data from the browser while keeping your theme, language, and text size

Related topics

• All release notes
• 2.6.0 — the previous release
• Long chats — compacting a chat, and the context ring in beta
• Drive — folder sharing, shortcuts, and chatting with a folder
• Skills — creating a skill from chat, and the Automatic switch
• Teams (beta) — messaging your teammates