The devices Chromebook Plus This Tuesday they release new features powered by Google’s Artificial Intelligence (AI), among which are Help Me Write or the Magic Editor, as well as the assistant based on this technology, Gemini.
The technology manufacturer has explained that these devices, which can be purchased from 449 euros, will also have new Google tools and integrations, which will allow users to “do a lot of things more easily.”
Among the AI-powered features that Chromebooks have debuted is Help Me Write, which introduces suggestions for titling a blog post, publish a ‘post’ on social networks or change the tone of a text according to a certain style.
Likewise, this solution, which will be launched in Spanish in the coming months, helps users create a text from scratch based on a prompt or reformulate an already written text to make it more formal or change it completely.
As for the Magic Editor of Google Photos, which will also come to Chromebook Plus, Google has commented that it will allow you to select a photo to edit it in the Google Photos application and, after surrounding a certain object, you can change its position or modify its size.
These devices also now include wallpapers and video call backgrounds created using generative AI integrated into the Chromebook Plus operating system, so that users will only have to decide what they want to see on their screen for this technology to create a proposal for them. design.
Google has also added Gemini to the home screen of Chromebook Plus, so it will be easier to chat with the assistant from the main interface. In this sense, he recalled that until the end of the year it will offer a 12-month trial of the Google One AI Premium plan at no cost to new users of these devices.
Gemini can also be used to generate website summaries or PDFs with a single click, as well as expand the information in these documents with answers generated by Artificial Intelligence.
TOOLS TO SPEED UP WORK
Setting up the new Chromebooks is now easier with the help of an Android device, which can scan and share passwords to avoid having to enter them again on different occasions.
You can also access with one click Google Tasks with the new integrated view of the application, which allows you to add or cross off the to-do list. Additionally, a screenshot tool has been introduced to automatically record screenshots in GIF format.
Game Dashboard, for its part, improves gaming performance through features to enrich the gaming experience, such as mapping controls to the keyboard. This and the previous news will begin to reach devices within a week, through an automatic update.
Also coming soon is a feature that allows resume activity ad with a new overview, which will show windows, tabs and applications. This way, if an article has been started on a mobile using Chrome, the user can finish reading it on the Chromebook with a single click.
Likewise, the device deploys a focus mode to promote concentration and hands-free control, as well as AI-assisted facial and text tracking. That way, “coming soon” it will be possible to write and send messages email or use ‘apps’ without having to download or use third-party ‘software’.