The Google Chrome browser is the company’s last major product to obtain its own integrated gemini features. Today at Google I / S, the company has detailed its plans to bring its AI assistant to Chrome.
While Gemini can already distill information from the websites, the fact that the assistant has baked in Chrome allows him to provide information and answer questions on your open tabs without ever having to move to a different window or application. Instead, Gemini lives in a new menu at the top of your browser’s window as well as in the taskbar.
The company plans that its assistant is able to help with tasks which can normally require to switch between several open tabs or scrolling different parts of a web page. For example, Google has shown how Gemini can give advice on the potential changes in food restrictions while watching a recipe blog. Gemini in the browser could also be useful during purchases because it can answer specific questions about the products or even summarize the opinions.
To begin with, Gemini can only respond to requests on a single open tab, but the company plans to add multi-tabric capacities in a future update. This would allow the assistant to synthesize information on several open tabs and answer even more complex questions. Gemini in Chrome will also have live capabilities Gemini, for anyone who is more comfortable with the assistant using his voice. The company has also teased a future update that will allow Gemini to scroll through the web pages on your behalf, as asking it to go to a specific step in a recipe. (In particular, all this is distinct from the other Google web navigation AI, Project Mariner, which is always a research prototype.)
Gemini is starting to deploy Chrome users on Mac and Windows today, starting with AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in the United States. The company did not indicate whether it planned to provide similar features to Chromebooks or the Chrome mobile application.