Google Sheets just released this crazy cool AI cell formula.
You can now select a row, write a short prompt, and get an AI-generated response — just like a calculated column. It’s smart, flexible, and actually useful. You can also apply it to entire columns by dragging down the formula.
I’d love to see Retool implement something similar: an “AI” column type.
In the column settings, you’d define a prompt and map values from the row’s fields as context. Retool could then generate a live, row-level AI response — directly in the table UI.
This would be great for tons of Retool usecases
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Thanks for reaching out, @JoeyKarczewski! I've been sitting on this one for a bit just because we're working on a lot of different AI things at the moment, but I don't think this is on our immediate roadmap. If that changes, though, I'll provide an update here!
While certainly not as integrated of a solution, I imagine something similar is possible by writing a dedicated AI query and inserting it as middleware, so to speak, between your data query and table. You would likely want to run some diffing in order to only pass in the values that have changed, but the end effect should be roughly the same.
