Google Disco AI browser turns tabs into custom web apps

Disco is more than yet another AI feature bolted onto a browser; it’s Google publicly experimenting with a workflow where the browser becomes an agentic interface that builds tools on demand. By letting Gemini 3 observe your tabs and prior chats, then synthesize them into task-specific mini-apps, Google is probing what a post-page, post-search web might look like. That’s very much in line with the broader shift from chatbots to agents that plan, act, and maintain context across sessions.

Strategically, this is Google testing a new surface area for its frontier models outside classic search. If users start to view the browser as a programmable agentic workspace, it tightens the integration between Gemini and the Chrome ecosystem and pressures rivals like Microsoft’s Copilot+ and OpenAI’s desktop agents to rethink their own UI metaphors. For the broader race to AGI, Disco is a glimpse of how advanced models will be productized: not as standalone chatbots, but as infrastructure that continuously reconfigures the tools around you.