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Title: Google is bringing Gemini to Chrome so it can answer questions about
your open tabs

Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 17:49:03 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-is-bringin...

Google's Chrome browser is the latest major product from the company to get
its own built-in Gemini features. Today at Google I/O, the company detailed
its plans to bring its AI assistant to Chrome.

While Gemini can already distill information from websites, having the
assistant baked into Chrome allows it to provide insights and answer
questions about 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 window as well as in the taskbar.

The company envisions its assistant as being able to help out with tasks that
may normally require switching between several open tabs or scrolling around
to different parts of a web page. For example, Google showed off how Gemini
can give advice about potential modifications for dietary restrictions while
looking at a recipe blog. Gemini in the browser could also come in handy
while shopping as it can answer specific questions about products or even
summarize reviews.

To start, Gemini will only be able to answer queries about a single open tab,
but the company plans to add multi-tab capabilities in a future update. This
would allow the assistant to synthesize info across multiple open tabs and
answer even more complex questions. Gemini in Chrome will also have Gemini
Live capabilities, for anyone more comfortable conversing with the assistant
using their voice. The company also teased a future update that will allow
Gemini to actually scroll through web pages on your behalf, like asking it to
jump to a specific step in a recipe. (Notably, all this is separate from
Google's other web-browsing AI, Project Mariner, which is still a research
prototype.)

Gemini is starting to roll out to Chrome users on Mac and Windows today,
beginning with AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in the United States. The
company hasn't indicated whether it plans to bring similar features to
Chromebooks or Chrome's mobile app.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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