Future Mode Part 1: The intelligent and secure browser for enterprises

Editor's Note: Our Future Mode series will give businesses insight into how Chrome Enterprise is approaching AI in the browser. Stay tuned for more blogs in this series.

For the modern enterprise, the browser has already evolved beyond a simple application and has become the primary workspace where collaboration happens, sensitive data is accessed and employees perform key tasks every day. It’s now also the place where employees are accessing a growing mix of powerful, new AI tools and services.

There’s never been a more exciting time to be working on Chrome Enterprise, the browser that hundreds of millions of employees are already using at work. We believe the browser is uniquely positioned to meet the needs of the modern enterprise. The browser has already begun transcending its traditional role. By providing intelligence that helps workers be more productive, bringing agents that automate tasks, and keeping users safe with security that's becoming even more efficient, we are defining a future where the browser is both agentic and secure. Organizations don't have to choose between innovation and safety.

In this blog series, "Future Mode," our product and engineering experts will share how we are reshaping the way people engage with their apps, data, and the web. Today, we’ll give you a peek into our vision for AI in Chrome Enterprise and how we’re supporting businesses with a secure transformation to this new way of working.

The role of agentic browsing in the workplace

The next generation of browsing is intelligent, agentic and more secure. The browser is no longer just a tool you use. It will increasingly have the ability to perform actions on behalf of the users. Automated capabilities are being built on top of the AI assistant that already sits alongside your work with Gemini in Chrome. Bringing agentic and automated capabilities to the workplace allows the browser to anticipate a user’s intent, handle repetitive business oriented tasks and synthesize information across apps and the web, while enforcing security policies that protect company data dynamically. It will transform the browser into a doer, clearing the path for employees to do their best work, but still keep the user in control of key actions to ensure safety. We’re excited to bring this to enterprises later this year.

An agentic browser will amplify enterprise productivity by streamlining multi-step tasks, so employees can focus on the core job at hand. Let’s imagine a project manager needs to schedule a follow-up meeting with five key stakeholders and wants to ensure they have the latest "Project Scope" document. The agentic browser can analyze a recent team chat, check calendars, send the invite, and automatically share the relevant documentation. It frees employees from time-consuming tasks by taking action on the employee’s behalf. While this is one example, it’s easy to see how this automated browsing experience that will come to businesses soon can change how we approach our day-to-day work.

Built on a foundation of security

Innovation cannot thrive without security, especially in enterprise environments. While IT teams can't afford to ignore AI, or default to shutting it down completely longterm, they do have the tremendous responsibility of ensuring these capabilities are brought to their business in a secure way.

While some tools force a choice between rigid security or unrestricted AI, Chrome Enterprise is able to merge these two critical areas. We provide the granular controls and management tools businesses need to move fast without compromising security. Chrome Enterprise Premium's enhanced DLP features, like real-time copy/paste restrictions, data masking to redact sensitive data being typed into LLMs and dynamic watermarking, help prevent accidental or malicious sharing of sensitive data across the web. This includes protection for the growing number of AI services employees may use at work. It also gives controls over which AI features are enabled for which user groups and restricts access to unapproved external generative AI tools.

As we introduce new agentic capabilities to Chrome, we’re applying our rigorous security standards and launching entirely new defenses to help protect you from new types of online threats. On top of Gemini in Chrome’s existing protections, we’ve added a double-check system that independently reviews the AI’s actions to ensure they are safe. We have also set strict boundaries so the AI can only access the specific websites relevant to the task at hand, blocking it from interacting with anything else. This helps keep our users protected when interacting with agentic prompts. All these security capabilities are built directly into Chrome for all users, and these benefits extend to enterprise customers automatically.

Bringing best in class AI models to businesses

Chrome Enterprise uses Google’s best in class AI models and adapts them to the needs of your organization. By integrating our recently announced Gemini 3 models directly into the browsing experience, we are adapting the world’s best reasoning and agentic capabilities into Chrome. This means that AI isn’t a standalone tool, but a contextual engine that understands the corporate data and web page you’re viewing. By bringing this AI-powered productivity across operating systems, we ensure that no matter where you work, you get a consistent, secure and intelligent experience across platforms.

Gemini 3 is the best model in the world for multimodal understanding and our most powerful agentic and vibe coding model yet. For folks following the benchmarks, it tops the LMArena Leaderboard with a breakthrough score of 1501 Elo. It demonstrates PhD-level reasoning with top scores on Humanity’s Last Exam (37.5% without the usage of any tools) and GPQA Diamond (91.9%).

And as Google’s AI models advance, enterprises will continue to benefit from the rapid innovation coming from Google and will get access to the best AI models possible right in their browser.

Supporting enterprise AI adoption

Because the browser is at the intersection of the apps, data and information on the web that an employee needs to get work done, Chrome Enterprise has a unique opportunity to help re-shape and improve the way people work. We take this very seriously, and are deeply committed to bringing controls for businesses for new AI features in Chrome. Additionally we are giving businesses extra time to evaluate major AI features before pushing them out to enterprise users and working closely with the Google Workspace team to extend enterprise data protections for Chrome’s AI features to our enterprise customers.

We’re excited to partner together to find the most helpful ways to bring together the best of your company apps, data with the Web and the power of AI. Stay tuned for more helpful examples and sneak peeks into what is coming for our Chrome Enterprise customers.