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Google Chrome becomes your web intern

It's official: Chrome wants to browse for you. Google just launched Auto Browse, a feature that turns its browser into an AI agent capable of surfing the web, filling out forms, comparing prices, and preparing your purchases. All while you do something else.

The concept is straightforward. You describe a task to Gemini through a new side panel built directly into Chrome, and the AI handles the grunt work. Finding a cheap flight to Vegas, comparing hotels across multiple dates, filling out an endless administrative PDF, Chrome takes care of it. You just keep control for validating purchases or publishing content.

This feature runs on Gemini 3, Google's latest model, and even supports the Universal Commerce Protocol, an open standard developed with Shopify, Etsy, and Target to streamline interactions with e-commerce sites. Google clearly isn't doing things halfway.

Of course, there's a catch. Auto Browse is reserved for Gemini Pro subscribers at 20 dollars per month or Ultra at 250 dollars per month. Google is gradually turning Chrome into a premium product, and the free version increasingly looks like a trial version.

Google is late to this game. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Perplexity all launched their browsing agents before them. But with 65% browser market share, Google doesn't need to be first. It just needs to copy what works and integrate it natively into Chrome. The classic strategy of the giant who waits for others to clear the path before swallowing everything.

We're entering an era where your browser works for you. Whether we'll trust it enough to let it drive solo remains to be seen.

Alex.