Chromebooks Will Get Gemini and New Google AI Features

The primary notable characteristic is Assist Me Write, which works in any textual content field. Choose textual content in any textual content field and right-click—you may see a field subsequent to the usual right-click context menu. You possibly can ask Google’s AI to rewrite the chosen textual content, rephrase it in a selected approach, or change the tone. I attempted to apply it to a number of sentences on this story however didn’t like every of the solutions it gave me, so your mileage could fluctuate. Or possibly I am a greater author than Google’s AI. Who is aware of?

Google’s bringing the identical generative AI wallpaper system you may discover in Android to ChromeOS. You possibly can entry this characteristic in ChromeOS’s wallpaper settings and generate photographs based mostly on particular parameters. Weirdly, you may create these whenever you’re in a video-calling app too. You may see a menu possibility subsequent to the system tray each time the microphone and video digicam are being accessed—faucet on it and click on “Create with AI” and you’ll generate a picture to your video name’s background. I am unsure why I would desire a background of a “surreal bicycle fabricated from flowers in pink and purple,” however there you go. AI!

This is one thing a bit extra helpful: Magic Editor in Google Photographs. Yep, the identical characteristic that debuted in Google’s Pixel 8 smartphones is now accessible on Chromebook Plus laptops. Within the Google Photographs app, you may press Edit on a photograph and you may see the choice for Magic Editor. (You may must obtain extra modifying instruments to get began.) This characteristic allows you to erase undesirable objects in your images, transfer a topic to a different space of the body, and fill within the backgrounds of images. I efficiently erased a paint can within the background of a photograph of my canine, and it labored fairly rapidly.

Then there’s Gemini. It is accessible as a stand-alone app, and you’ll ask it to do just about something. Write a canopy letter, break down advanced matters, ask for journey ideas for a selected nation. Simply, you realize, double-check the outcomes and make sure there aren’t any hallucinations. If you wish to faucet into Google’s Gemini Superior mannequin, the corporate says it’s providing 12 months free for brand new Chromebook Plus homeowners by the top of the 12 months, so you will have a while to redeem that provide. That is technically an improve from Google One, and it nets you Gemini for Workspace, 2 terabytes of storage, and a few other perks.