Google’s including a slew of AI options to its productivity-focused Chromebook Plus line of units, together with a screen-selection device for search and textual content seize, a device that explains complicated textual content, and NotebookLM.
The brand new screen-selection device works equally to Google Lens and the “Circle to look” function in Chrome on smartphones: long-press the launcher button or use the screenshot device to pick what’s in your display, and Google will immediately seek for it. The device additionally lets you choose textual content and rapidly add an occasion to the calendar.
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Final 12 months, Google added a brand new “fast insert” key to some Chromebook Plus fashions that allows you to set off shortcuts. Customers can now entry Google’s AI image-generation options with this key, in addition to AI-powered writing instruments.
In the meantime, the brand new “Simplify” function enables you to use AI to elucidate, simplify, or summarize any textual content you will have chosen.
Google’s additionally giving all new Chromebook Plus customers one 12 months’s subscription to the Google AI Professional plan, which incorporates entry to the Gemini app; video modifying device Move; image-to-video creation device Whisk; Gemini in Gmail, Docs, and Chrome; and 2TB of storage. The AI Professional plan in any other case prices $240 per 12 months.
Alongside these options, Google is launching two unique AI options for Lenovo’s new Chromebook Plus 14: One makes use of AI to suggest tab and doc group, whereas the second lets customers edit pictures utilizing the Gallery app to take away backgrounds or make stickers.
Lenovo’s new Chromebook comes with an OLED contact display and runs on an ARM-based MediaTek Kompanio Extremely chip. It is available in 12GB and 16GB RAM variants, costing $649 and $749, respectively.
