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RIP Tabs? Google Disco Wants to Turn Your Browser into an App"

 




New day new launch by Google just kicked off a serious fight in the AI browser space with Disco, its new Labs experiment—and it’s coming straight for players like Comet ,Ace and ChatGPT Atlas. Unlike most AI browsers that just add a chatbot or sidebar to a normal tabbed interface, Disco tries to turn your open tabs into actual mini web apps using Gemini and a feature called "GenTabs".​

Instead of juggling 20 tabs, you tell Disco what you’re doing planning a trip, studying, researching ideas-and it builds a focused workspace with timelines, maps, lists, and widgets on top of the pages you already have open. You can then ask it to tweak the layout, add components, or pull in new sources, and the “app” updates on the fly. Comet and Atlas are great at summarizing, searching across tabs, and acting like AI copilots, but they mostly keep the classic browser model intact.​​

Right now Disco is still a Google Labs experiment, invite‑only and early, while Comet and others are already shipping on multiple platforms. The wildcard is that if users actually like this tab‑to‑app idea, Google can fold Disco’s best parts into Chrome and push this model to a massive audience. If that happens, every AI browser including Comet, Ace will have to decide whether AI is just a smart assistant in the browser, or if the browser itself should become something entirely new.​

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