Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome to seven Asia‑Pacific countries, bringing its in‑browser AI assistant to desktop users in all seven and to iOS users in every market except Japan.

New markets, staged availability

Google said Monday it is making the Gemini in Chrome feature available in seven additional Asia-Pacific countries: Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Vietnam. The company will push the feature to desktop users in all seven markets and to iOS users in every market except Japan.

What Gemini does inside Chrome

Gemini in Chrome appears as an in‑browser assistant that helps people find answers, work across tabs and interact with personal content. Key capabilities include:

  • Personal Intelligence: the assistant can access a user’s Gmail and Google Photos to generate personalized responses.
  • Integration with account services: it can propose meeting times from Calendar, look up locations via Maps, and draft or send messages through Gmail when requested.
  • Multi‑tab synthesis: available as a sidebar or floating window, the assistant can reference and synthesize information from multiple open pages while keeping tabs visible.

Image editing and Nano Banana 2

Google added image transformation tools to the Chrome assistant experience. The sidebar can run quick image edits powered by a compact model Google calls Nano Banana 2. These edits are intended for on‑the‑fly tasks such as:

  • Cropping and basic composition tweaks
  • Color adjustments and simple retouching
  • Small creative transforms without exporting images to another app

Agentic features still limited

Not all Gemini features are rolling out globally. Google said its agentic capability — which can take multi‑step actions in the browser on a user’s behalf, such as filling out forms or navigating websites — remains in testing and is restricted to paid subscribers in the United States. Those paid tiers are AI Pro and AI Ultra, which offer advanced functions beyond the free assistant.

How Google has been integrating AI into Chrome

Google began adding Gemini features to Chrome last year, first with a floating assistant window. Subsequent updates added the ability to pull context from open tabs and surface personalized answers tied to a user’s Google account; more recent releases moved the assistant into a persistent sidebar for ongoing, multi‑tab interactions.

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The agentic capability — which can take multi‑step actions in the browser on a user’s behalf — remains in testing and is limited to paid AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S.