Google is experimenting with a very different kind of web experience that goes beyond traditional browsing and simple AI assistants.
Instead of just loading pages and showing search results, its new project called 'Disco,' is an experimental browser built on Chromium and rolled out through Google Labs. Instead of just showing users pages, it tries to understand what users are trying to do online and help them complete those tasks.
The first and headline feature of Disco is 'GenTabs,' an AI-powered tool that uses Google's latest Gemini 3 model to analyze the information in the open tabs and users' Gemini chat history, then generate interactive, task-specific tools built from that content rather than leaving users to juggle dozens of separate tabs manually.
GenTabs doesn’t just summarize pages.
Disco is a new experiment from @GoogleLabs, designed to reimagine browsing and building for the modern web. The first feature we’re testing is GenTabs — a new way to remix your open tabs into totally custom apps using Gemini 3, our most intelligent model.
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Instead, it looks at everything users are researching, and turn them into a sort of custom web application on the fly.
For example, if users are planning a trip, GenTabs can pull together itineraries, maps, dates, and hotel or activity links into a dynamic workspace; if users are studying a subject, it can build visual organizers or flash cards; if they're cooking or planning meals, it can assemble recipes into a consolidated plan with shopping lists.
Initially available through Google Labs, users can describe waht they want in natural language, and let the system generate something they can interact with and refine further, all without writing any code.
Every generated element still links back to the original web pages GenTabs pulled from, so the AI isn't creating answers in a vacuum but grounding tools in the actual web content users opened.
The idea behind Disco is partly a response to the “tab overload” problem that many people encounter when doing deep research or complex tasks online.
Traditionally, people's modern lives online often scatters information across dozens of web pages that users must then mentally stitch together. With GenTabs, Google is exploring a model where the browser actively reorganizes and restructures that information into something more useful.
In other words, Google is not building a new way for users to search for something, nor it's developing a method to summarize things.
Instead, Disco is a move towards AI-mediated workflows built atop normal web content.
Disco is currently in an early testing phase, available via a waitlist (initially on macOS), and Google is explicitly treating it as an experimental vehicle rather than a finished product.
The company has also said that ideas from Disco might eventually influence other Google products depending on what the early feedback shows.
At least initially, critics and observers note that Disco isn't positioned as a direct replacement for Chrome.
Google also acknowledges uncertainty about its long-term form.
But the truth is, Disco isn't a browser in a traditional sense. With Disco, Google is just experimenting on a new paradigm of browsing: one where AI helps turn disjointed web content into useful, interactive experiences rather than leaving users to switch back and forth between tabs and apps.
The broader implication is that as AI models like Gemini 3 get better at understanding context across pages and chats, browsing could shift from passive consumption of information to active, AI-assisted task completion.