Google has introduced the most significant upgrade in Chrome history; It embeds some advanced AI-based features directly into the web browser. These upgrades include AI mode accessible from the address bar (or what Google calls Omnibox), multi-tab analysis (compares and summarizes content), tab history retrieval, and deeper integration with Google apps like Calendar, Maps, and YouTube.
Other features include an agent browsing assistant, contextual page questions, improved fraud detection, intelligent notification filtering, and one-click password changes. Additionally, Chrome’s AI tools are now being marketed as native browser features, suggesting they may become an integral part of the browsing experience rather than just extensions.
This includes the ability to ask complex questions in the address bar, get AI overviews or summaries in the side panels, and consolidate information across open tabs. All of these features, including the new ones, are powered by Google’s Gemini AI models. These features were announced in September but are rolling out now.
With the new features, you should be able to seamlessly combine and analyze information across multiple tabs, ask follow-up questions, ask Google’s AI to pull data from your calendar (such as the schedule for a meeting) or maps (the distance between your house and the destination you’re looking for), and detect fraud and malicious content along the way.
This marks a fundamental shift in how Chrome works: from a native browser that also provided active AI-based tools to a browser that provides them front, right and center. By integrating AI capabilities into Chrome, the browser is able to understand, summarize and act on information for the user.
This also helps Google position the browser as a direct alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet. With new AI features in Chrome, you’ll spend less time switching between tabs to find answers or organize information. While the new AI-based tools are available to Chrome users in the US, Google plans to expand geographic and language support in the near future.
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