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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.

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> 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

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

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.

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