Google is rethinking how people browse the internet with Disco, a new experimental browser experience that uses AI to convert cluttered tabs into smart, task-focused mini applications.
The project, powered by Google’s Gemini 3 AI model, introduces a feature called GenTabs, which quietly studies what users are trying to accomplish and automatically organises information across tabs.
Google Disco feature
It might set the stage for an entirely new level of more efficient AI-driven browsing tools that may be created in the years that follow.
At the core of Disco is GenTabs, which watches open tabs, search queries, and related content and uses these factors to develop interactive web applications on-the-fly. Users have to define what they want to achieve and then build browser tools based on that.
These might include comparison dashboards, shopping boards, research summaries, planning aids, or information extraction tools.
The resultant applications are still associated with the original online sources. Google’s efforts to integrate Gemini AI more into daily online activities have been seen in its latest advancements, as testing shows that some activities that would previously have prompted people to open at least ten tabs can be done within a single workspace generated with AI.
As it stands, Disco and GenTabs are currently limited to a small set of macOS users in the US, and a waitlist is now open. Google hasn’t yet revealed an extension plan for testing on Windows or ChromeOS.
However, it seems that successful elements from Disco might make it into Chrome in the future, and Chrome might become a very useful “real-time app builder based on user intent.”