These days announcements like this just make me want to put on my tinfoil hat - what's in it for Google, though? Why make it more convenient for people to submit webpages to you?
Lots of people are flocking to Claude and ChatGPT -- and making Gemini more useful in the browser everyone already has makes a lot of sense.
More Google use, more data they gather, more ads they can show you
Presumably the upside for Google is they'll just lock it behind the "Google AI Plus" subscription plan if it isn't already
Yes. We desperately need more local models.