Welcome to the world, Googlebook. Google announced the new eponymous category of AI laptops at the Android Show: I/O Edition on Tuesday. Think of it as the lovechild of a Chromebook and a Copilot+ PC, Microsoft’s term for AI-designed Windows laptops.
“Over 15 years ago, we introduced the Chromebook, a laptop built for a cloud-first world,” Google Senior Director Alex Kuscher said in a blog post. “Now, as computing shifts from an operating system to an intelligence system, we see an opportunity to rethink laptops again.”
When the first models are released in the fall, Googlebooks will run Android apps like Chromebooks, but they’ll place a heavier emphasis on features powered by Gemini, Google’s AI assistant. Kuscher said Googlebooks are “the first laptops designed from the ground up for Gemini Intelligence.”
The Googlebook will let users create their own widgets with AI. Credit: Google
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