Gemini in Chrome Expands to Users in Asia-Pacific Markets

The integration of Google’s Gemini AI into the company’s Chrome browser is now available to users in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. Chrome’s new Gemini integration lets users ask the chatbot to summarize web pages and YouTube videos, compare information across multiple tabs, draft emails, edit images, and more.

Gemini in Chrome launched in the US in September, with India, New Zealand, and Canada following last month. On desktop, the integration adds Gemini to a side panel, and Gemini in Chrome is also available on iPhones and iPads, except in Japan. The mobile integration is more limited, however, as Gemini can only analyze content from the current browser tab.

With the recent global launch of Personal Intelligence, Chrome users can connect Gemini to other apps like Gmail and Google Photos and have the chatbot remember context from past conversations. Last week, Google also started rolling out Skills in Chrome, which let desktop users with their Chrome language set to English-US turn specific AI workflows into reusable skills.

“All this is built with security in mind from the start and is designed to keep you in control. Our models are trained to recognize known threats, like prompt injection, and include safeguards to ask for confirmation before completing sensitive actions,” Google said yesterday.

Lastly, Google is currently testing Auto Browse, a new agentic AI feature for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US. It lets Chrome perform multi-step actions on its own, similar to what Perplexity Comet, Opera Neon, and other AI web browsers can do. There’s no word yet on when Auto Browse will become available in other markets, however.