Google Workspace is always like 6 months behind on features. Even basic things like being able to delete chats: https://support.google.com/a/thread/321841996/why-can-t-i-de...

Isn't it worse having it baked in? Usually extensions move faster, compete for best feature set etc etc.

"Baked in" usually means "that's the last update we're gonna see".

Plus I might want to - you know - switch browsers one day.

Timing in Google is all about perf cycles. This is being done so people can say they launched and landed Gemini in Chrome.

Word on the street:

https://stocktwits.com/Johnnyalgo/message/616611886

TLDR: Judge on the case appears to be more sympathetic toward Google than reported.

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Imho, Google has been the most relentless on pushing AI than any other company atm. Sundar is not getting enough credit for this.

Corporate org level announcement mails

I’ve got one. When estimating tasks, there’s a particular blog article I like to reference [0] and I used an LLM to summarize it into a set of project instructions.

Did it read the summary? Nope, I already know the material and have been using it for years. But it was a great way to communicate the key points to the model as part of project instructions.

[0]: https://jacobian.org/2021/may/25/my-estimation-technique/

As a heavy LLM user, professionally and personally, I use "summarize this" a lot - I find that most content in the world is low signal-to-noise and a lot of the time the salient / useful information is hidden within unnecessary layers.

The only time I didn't think summaries are useful is with creative fiction or pure entertainment content.

I've been using it on my own written docs to see what my co-workers inevitably see

Recipes.

"Summarize it. Keep only instructions and ingredients (more prompt about how to format instructions, what units to use, how to order instructions) and start with one sentence that describes the dish and it's origin"

Which is a terrible waste, really. Many recipes are blown up to make them copyrightable. Often done with AI. And then I use AI to remove all that again.

Yeah we already have a perfectly serviceable way to extract the meat from an article and avoid the filler (i.e. don't click just read the headline)

The text summary for group chats provides a lot more information at a glance than “21 new messages”

I summarize HN threads, blog posts, YT videos, etc. to see if the content is worth my time. So far I've used Perplexity extension.

Long articles that I don't have time to read fully and that contain a lot of words serving only as placeholders, without changing the main message or information.

Imagine a horrific world where most articles are 5 pages of LLM generated fluff from a 10 bullet point sentences prompt. I know, truly a nightmare world. But in this world, wouldn't it be great to just collapse all those articles down to their original prompt? A sort of reverse-fluffing. So maybe I can't convince you of how great it is in our world, but hopefully at least in this hypothetical world it makes sense.

I don't use it to summarize, but I like to ask about the key takeaways for long-form content. E.g., "what did he say that was noteworthy or new about X [in this long interview I don't time to read right now]"

Any recipe page on the Web is unreadable without summarization cause they are made for seo.

New York Times (and other magazines) articles. "On a quiet Sunday morning..." - No, I don't care about it, just tell me the damn thing (which usually can be done in 4-5 sentences).

They don't. They just get themselves acquired.

But the question is by "who"?

6 months later after this [0] it now looks almost very obvious.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42213288

Sounds like you installed some kind of extension maybe? This definitely does not seem like any Firefox default behavior.

What's unfair about that? Google is definitely a monopoly, but as long as other models can eventually enjoy similar integrations, through extensions or otherwise, I don't see how it's unfair for Google to add their model to their browser and search page, especially when their chief business model of search (OK, we know it's really just ads, but still) is currently being directly threatened by other model and search providers.

It's very simple. Make a new browser. Chrome was a new browser and they worked hard to get market share. AI-first browsers with completely new workflows are what's in order, and no one is going to just hand that to any company. You'll have to innovate. Chrome literally saved web development, so we're not going to sit around and act like it was a mega company just pushing something down people's throats.

> How can OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other AI player compete against this?

This is what Perplexity is already doing with their own browser. But it tells you that a website is not enough.

OpenAI or Anthropic either need to go and build their own browser or even buy an existing one.

Does anyone have an "Idea" who it could be? [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42213288

Apple and Microsoft will do the same. The OS war became the browser war becomes the AI assistant war. I suspect there's enough complexity in AI use cases that there will be independent winners for things like coding assist, enterprise agents, etc.

Fun to watch.

by designing ai first products that can operate at far lower margins. Google has to extract hundreds of billions a year, perplexity, anthropic, openai all dont.

Idk what the future of the browser is but i know if i was in the lab at any of these companies i'd be laughing at the competition putting a out a product that was just a text summary in a window.

If this integration is like the Googles other ones then it will use much cheaper to run models for it. And not their Gemini ones.

I don't know - for a trillion dollar company, Google is remarkably inept at just about everything that isn't advertising.

They had multiple messaging technologies and never could figure out how to embed one into Chrome to take over messaging (a la iMessage). Google Home has somehow been getting worse with every passing year. I have no doubt they will totally fuck this up and just end up boosting Chrome's already insidious tendency to chew up every spare CPU cycle.

And that is a terrifying sentence to read.

So does Microsoft with Windows. Or Apple. The platforms these companies have built are very useful to consumers do there is a lot of potential value in supercharging them with AI.

It's also been rolled out to Chrome Canary/Beta it seems

You can right click the button to remove it.