Google’s working to build AI Mode right into Chrome

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TL;DR

• Chrome Canary includes a new chrome:// page specifically for AI Mode.
• The native integration allows AI Mode to access your open Chrome tabs.
• We don’t know when this feature will make it to stable Chrome.

AI Mode is Google’s attempt to combine its longstanding flagship product Search with a more chatbot-like experience, answering questions using info from the web by parsing and reiterating information from web pages in an interaction that feels like a plain-language conversation. Now, the company’s working on integrating that experience more directly into the Chrome browser, testing a new version of AI Mode inside Chrome Canary.

As spotted by Windows Report, the latest Chrome Canary desktop build features a version of Google’s AI Mode that opens in Chrome itself at chrome://contextual-tasks rather than directing the user to an external Google Search tab on the web. The interface is quite similar to the web implementation, showing the same Meet AI Mode heading and “Ask anything” text box.




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