Chrome Could Make It Easier to Share Relevant Tabs in AI Mode

Chrome users are familiar with the “Recent tabs” option in Google AI Mode, which lets them bring recently opened tabs into an AI conversation. In a new test we spotted in Chrome Canary, Google appears to be trying something different: “Share relevant tabs”.

The new option appears under “Add tabs” in AI Mode. After selecting Share relevant tabs, a dedicated button appears inside the AI Mode compose box.

Recent tabs option is based on a user’s recent browsing activity, while Share relevant tabs is designed to identify which currently open tabs may be useful for a specific AI Mode request.

In our test, Chrome had several open tabs, including Windows Report, Microsoft Search, Google, Wikipedia, a Microsoft account page and Bing.

After we selected Share relevant tabs, no tabs had been attached yet.

We then entered “share relevant tabs” as the prompt. AI Mode selected three tabs from the browser session: Windows Report, Sign in to your account and Search – Microsoft Bing.

The other open tabs were not included.

AI Mode then used the selected tabs as context for its response. It pulled information from the Windows Report page and referenced the Microsoft account and Bing pages in its answer.

Selecting Share relevant tabs does not immediately attach a group of tabs. It first adds the control to the compose box. The tabs are selected only after we ask AI Mode to share the relevant tabs.

This is not the first time Chrome has been seen testing relevant-tab sharing. In May, we reported that Chrome Canary was testing AI Mode settings that could automatically share relevant open tabs while allowing users to block specific sites from being shared.

What is new in this test is that the feature appears directly inside the AI Mode experience, giving users a way to ask AI Mode to select relevant tabs from the compose box itself.