Google is rolling out new artificial intelligence features in its Chrome browser for logged-in users in the United States, including access to an AI image generator and editor.
The expanded rollout will make Google’s AI image generator and editing tool, “Nano Banana,” available to Chrome’s logged-in users on desktop computers in the United States, according to the Associated Press report by Michael Liedtke.
AP said the expanded access through the browser “may further blur the lines between real-life pictures and fabricated images.” The report frames the change as part of Google’s broader push to integrate more artificial intelligence technology into its digital services.
The Chrome expansion will also offer an option for Chrome’s U.S. 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.
For subscribers to Google’s AI Pro and Ultra services, the browser upgrades will add an “auto browse” function. AP reported that the function will log into websites, shop for merchandise on command, and prepare posts on social media.
AP also reported that users will still have to manually complete purchases from the shopping carts prepared by AI and approve drafted social media posts, even when auto browse prepares those items and drafts.
The AI in Chrome relies on Google’s Gemini 3 model, AP said. The report also said Google is baking Gemini into many of the services that helped Alphabet surpass a market value of $4 trillion.
AP reported that earlier this month, Google tapped Gemini to bring more AI features to Gmail, making Gmail behave more like a personal assistant, and then funneled more of the technology into its search engine for more relevant answers tailored to users’ tastes and habits.
The upgrades to Google’s search engine, AP said, plug into the company’s “Personal Intelligence” technology that leverages AI to learn more about people’s lives, with Google promising to roll out a Personal Intelligence option in Chrome at some point later this year.
The Chrome AI makeover is arriving months after a federal judge rejected the U.S. Department of Justice’s push to force Google to sell the browser as a penalty for running an illegal monopoly in search, AP reported. The report said the judge rebuffed the breakup partly because he believed AI was already reshaping the competitive landscape as smaller rivals such as OpenAI and Perplexity deploy technology in chatbots and their own web browsers.
AP added that before releasing its AI browser Atlas last October, OpenAI expressed interest in buying Chrome if the breakup had been ordered. The report said Perplexity submitted a $34.5 billion bid for Chrome before the judge opted against a sale mandate.