By Associated Press Television News
Publication Date: 2026-01-29 08:56:00
Google is empowering its Chrome browser with the ability to alter imagery and a virtual assistant to help with online tasks as part of its push to turbocharge its digital services with Google AI. While the new features allow generating images, talking to Gemini through a sidebar, summarising webpages, documents, and YouTube videos, the company will expand these features to offer agentic capabilities, similar to ChatGPT in Atlas and Perplexity AI in Comet browsers.
The features rolling out include making Google’s AI image generator and editing tool, Nano Banana, available to Chrome’s logged-in users on Windows and macOS in the United States. The expanded access to Nano Banana through the leading web browser may further blur the lines between real-life pictures and fabricated images.
The browser’s expansion will also offer an option for Chrome’s US users to open a side panel so an AI-powered assistant can help with an assortment of chores while a user remains engaged with other online tasks.
Subscribers to Google’s AI Pro and Ultra services will also be able to activate an “auto browse” function that will log into websites, shop for merchandise on command and prepare posts on social media. Users will still have to manually complete purchases from the shopping carts prepared by AI and approve drafted social media posts.
The AI in Chrome relies on the Gemini 3 model that Google released late last year and is now being baked into many of the services that helped its…
