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Another showcase of Google using their dominant market position for Chrome to gain advantage in other markets, like AI agents.

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I tend to agree. If this was built as a true browser enhancement, it would allow you to select the model of your choice or even plug it into a locally running LLM. This being exclusive to Gemini just juices up their usage numbers to make their investments more justifiable. I wonder if Firefox will ever introduce any similar features.

> I wonder if Firefox will ever introduce any similar features.

I hope they never do. Nobody’s asking to have AI shoved down their throats, spying on them and profiling everything they do.

Firefox does have that and you can choose from different models or even a local one (last time I checked)!

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot

Not quite the same thing. Google's features seem to give the model the ability to control the browser, not just act upon the text within a given web page.

Is it integrated into the browser at all or is it basically a browser tab?

If only there was some law that prohibited monopolistic practices like these that could prevent or stop something like that from happening that could be enforced by a branch of the government... *sigh* just a utopian pipe dream, I suppose

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