Overview
- Google said Monday it began rolling out its Chrome-based Gemini assistant in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Vietnam, with desktop support and iOS everywhere except Japan, bringing availability to 11 markets.
- Gemini lives inside Chrome as a sidebar or floating window that you can open from an Ask Gemini icon in the top right or via keyboard shortcuts.
- The assistant can read the page you are viewing to summarize long articles, explain concepts, and compare information across multiple tabs.
- It also hooks into Google apps to add Calendar events, check places in Maps, and draft Gmail messages, and it includes the Nano Banana 2 tool to transform images found on the web using text prompts.
- Advanced agent-style controls that can operate the browser are still in testing for U.S. AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, Android support has not launched, and Google says the feature is opt-in with user activity controls and safeguards.