Google Lens is expanding its reach by joining Chrome’s built-in AI panel in the latest Canary builds, signaling a future where Chrome offers a contextual, chat-based AI assistant directly beside web pages. In these Canary releases, activating Lens opens Chrome’s native AI panel, enabling a multi-modal browsing experience that blends image understanding with real-time guidance. The integration points to a broader plan to embed Lens-powered insights—such as image search, product lookup, text extraction (OCR), translation, and scene understanding—directly into the browsing surface. For users, this means faster information discovery, seamless data extraction from images, easier shopping comparisons, and enhanced reading comprehension without leaving the page. These are early tests, and features may evolve as Google refines the Chrome AI interface. Looking ahead, Lens’s Chrome integration foreshadows deeper AI tools in Chrome’s native interface, delivering contextual, chat-based assistance alongside web content and making browsing more efficient and intuitive.