Today, Google announced a major overhaul to AI Mode in Chrome, introducing a suite of features designed to kill "tab hopping" forever. On paper, it’s a productivity dream: a new side-by-side browsing mode and the ability to search across multiple open tabs, PDFs and images simultaneously.
Under the hood, this new experience is powered by Gemini 3 Flash. While Google has optimized this model for speed, the 'PhD-level reasoning' it promises requires a massive amount of active context. When you use the new '+' menu to bridge 10 tabs together, you’re essentially asking Gemini 3 to keep all that data 'warm' in your RAM.
