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Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by ramoz »

soulofmischief wrote: post #32
leoff wrote: post #28

How can OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other AI player compete against this? Google can just slap their products to everybody in Android, Google Chrome, Google Search, which creates an unfair advantage.

What's unfair about that? Google is definitely a monopoly, but as long as other models can eventually enjoy similar integrations, through extensions or otherwise, I don't see how it's unfair for Google to add their model to their browser and search page, especially when their chief business model of search (OK, we know it's really just ads, but still) is currently being directly threatened by other model and search p…

Yea i dont think googles distribution has any real threat other than the enterprise monopoly equivalent.

And googles path to evolved ad revenue is clear in Veo3. Effective ads will be personalized videos - Google owns the infrastructure and data to make this real, others do not.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by cheriot »

leoff wrote: post #28

How can OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other AI player compete against this? Google can just slap their products to everybody in Android, Google Chrome, Google Search, which creates an unfair advantage.

Apple and Microsoft will do the same. The OS war became the browser war becomes the AI assistant war. I suspect there's enough complexity in AI use cases that there will be independent winners for things like coding assist, enterprise agents, etc.

Fun to watch.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by clearleaf »

berkes wrote: post #34
sebastiennight wrote: post #14

Can somebody please share what your "summarize this page for me" use cases are? I really struggle to understand how many people seem to have "summarize this" as their main LLM use case. And I use LLMs every day, for so many tasks - just never this one. Can you please share a couple of real-world times where you couldn't bother to read the "thing" and truly got value from having a LLM read it for you?

Recipes. "Summarize it. Keep only instructions and ingredients (more prompt about how to format instructions, what units to use, how to order instructions) and start with one sentence that describes the dish and it's origin" Which is a terrible waste, really. Many recipes are blown up to make them copyrightable. Often done with AI. And then I use AI to remove all that again.

Recipe sites always have a print button which gives you just the recipe. If I end up on one of those sites I instantly hit Ctrl+F "print" to get it.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by modeless »

Google should have a huge advantage in rolling out computer use agents because of their ownership of Chrome. Other agents running in the cloud don't have my passwords and login cookies and history, but Chrome does.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by andybak »

modeless wrote: post #44

Google should have a huge advantage in rolling out computer use agents because of their ownership of Chrome. Other agents running in the cloud don't have my passwords and login cookies and history, but Chrome does.

And that is a terrifying sentence to read.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by andybak »

nullbyte wrote: post #4

Its a great idea, Ive been looking for an extension that can do this. Pretty nice its baked in now

Isn't it worse having it baked in? Usually extensions move faster, compete for best feature set etc etc.

"Baked in" usually means "that's the last update we're gonna see".

Plus I might want to - you know - switch browsers one day.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by behnamoh »

sebastiennight wrote: post #14

Can somebody please share what your "summarize this page for me" use cases are? I really struggle to understand how many people seem to have "summarize this" as their main LLM use case. And I use LLMs every day, for so many tasks - just never this one. Can you please share a couple of real-world times where you couldn't bother to read the "thing" and truly got value from having a LLM read it for you?

I summarize HN threads, blog posts, YT videos, etc. to see if the content is worth my time. So far I've used Perplexity extension.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by dimitri-vs »

jadbox wrote: post #3

Note that the current version does not support Google workspace actions, like checking email, creating calendar items, or looking up notes in Keep. Essentially Gemini in Chrome is just the LLM with the current page context. (Also does not support multiple tabs yet)

Google Workspace is always like 6 months behind on features. Even basic things like being able to delete chats: https://support.google.com/a/thread/321841996/why-can-t-i-de...

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by charcircuit »

modeless wrote: post #44

Google should have a huge advantage in rolling out computer use agents because of their ownership of Chrome. Other agents running in the cloud don't have my passwords and login cookies and history, but Chrome does.

So does Microsoft with Windows. Or Apple. The platforms these companies have built are very useful to consumers do there is a lot of potential value in supercharging them with AI.

Re: Gemini in Chrome

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Post by aucisson_masque »

> Gemini in Chrome is first rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US who have their Chrome language set to English

Thought it was important enough but somewhat hidden on their website behind a scrolling faq.

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