Google Gemini in Chrome is Now Available in the UK

The integration of Google’s Gemini chatbot into the company’s Chrome browser is available in the UK starting today. This is the latest step in a global expansion that previously reached users in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and other markets.

On the desktop and iOS versions of Chrome, Gemini can be used to summarize web pages, compare information across multiple tabs, edit and create images, and more. On the desktop, Chrome users can also turn specific AI tasks into reusable one-click skills.

“Gemini in Chrome can remember context from past conversations, so you can get tailored answers when asking questions across the web, and uses Nano Banana 2 capabilities to transform images on the web with a simple text prompt,” the Chrome team said today. “All this is built with security in mind. Our models are trained to recognize known threats, like prompt injection, and include safeguards to ask for confirmation before completing sensitive actions.”

Google pushing its Gemini chatbot into its Chrome browser comes right after OpenAI announced that it was pulling the plug on ChatGPT Atlas, its AI web browser that first launched on Mac back in October. OpenAI has started turning its ChatGPT desktop app into a “super app” that can browse the web in addition to its Codex and new Work features, and it will be interesting to see if Google will do the opposite with its standalone Gemini app on Mac. Google Chrome already has billions of users, and with this new Gemini integration in Chrome, maybe the company doesn’t need to maintain a separate Gemini desktop app.