With Auto Browse, Google Chrome can now surf the net for you

For some time now, Google has been on a mission to increase its Chrome browser with extra AI options, powered by its Gemini fashions. Now, the corporate is launching a slew of latest AI options based mostly on Gemini 3 that embrace a brand new Auto Browse function, a brand new AI aspect panel for interacting with Gemini and an integration with its Nano Banana imaging mannequin.

Additionally it is bringing built-in Gemini assist to Chromebooks.

Let Chrome browse for you

The flagship function of this launch is Auto Browse. This isn’t a brand new thought, in fact. Many startups have been creating instruments to let an AI agent browse for you, however Google’s first mainstream launch on this space is certainly notable.

Throughout a press convention forward of the announcement, Charmaine D’Silva, Chrome’s Director of Product Administration, famous that “Auto Browse is once we make Gemini in Chrome really feel really agentic.”

Out there to paying Gemini Professional and Max subscribers quickly, Auto Browse will allow you to describe a process — be that discovering a flight to Vegas or orchestrating a extra complicated skilled workflow — after which the browser will attempt to full as a lot of that process for you as it might.

Auto Browse may also assist Google’s lately launched Common Commerce Protocol, making it simpler for the agent to browse procuring websites and get you to the checkout web page.

Letting an AI agent browse for you isn’t new, in fact, and there are even just a few different auto-browse instruments available on the market with the identical title. With Venture Mariner, Google’s DeepMind unit itself demonstrated a few of these capabilities within the spring of 2025. To check out Venture Mariner meant having a Gemini Extremely account, although. Now, a Professional plan is sufficient to give this a spin.

How helpful this function is will rely loads on the velocity. Many comparable tasks nonetheless undergo from being extraordinarily gradual. One benefit of Auto Browse is which you can let it work in a single tab and proceed to work in one other, which can alleviate this downside a bit.

Chrome will get a Gemini aspect panel

The obvious new UI options is the brand new aspect panel. Till now, to open Gemini in Chrome, you needed to click on on the Gemini icon on the prime proper of the browser, which might then open a pop-up window. That at all times felt like a considerably provisional and disconnected consumer expertise and made it more durable to make use of Gemini whereas additionally searching different tabs.

D’Silva acknowledges as a lot. “By means of that launch, we did get numerous suggestions from our customers saying that one factor they actually, actually missed out on is the power to truly have many of those conversations going on the identical time.”

Now, the brand new sidepanel allows you to work together with the mannequin independently, however it is usually conscious of the browser context, in fact. And since it is aware of what you might be doing within the browser, now you can additionally ask it to, for instance, evaluate totally different merchandise you might be researching throughout browser tabs.

Nano Banana within the aspect panel

With this new aspect panel, customers also can invoke Google’s Nano Banana mannequin to remodel any pictures which can be at the moment open within the browser. A few of these could also be copyrighted or information pictures, which opens up all types of points, particularly as a result of this makes it far simpler to control them since there’s no have to obtain the pictures after which add them to a mannequin once more. Nano Banana does have built-in guardrails, however the place there’s a will, there’s normally a method.

Wanting past the browser context, Gemini in Chrome was additionally lately up to date to assist Linked Apps. That’s Google’s time period for integrations with providers like Gmail, Google Calendar, YouTube, Maps, Google Flights, and others.

As Google notes in its announcement, which means should you’re going to a convention, Gemini can discover the context for that journey and search Google Flights for matching flights — after which draft an e mail to inform your colleagues when you’ll arrive in Las Vegas, a metropolis you actually didn’t wish to need to journey to but once more, so that you have been glad Gemini helped you retain the cognitive load low.