Hands-on: Chromebook Plus is Google's push for affordable AI

Did you know that computers have artificial intelligence now? We've been subjected to an absolute avalanche of marketing touting AI from seemingly every tech company, from Microsoft and Nvidia to laptop makers and even thermal paste sellers. Well if you've somehow avoided the AI blitz, possibly by using a Chromebook, you're about to get it in spades from Google. The company has been pushing its Gemini (nee Bard) AI tools into most of its high-profile products, most notably Chrome and Android. Now Chromebook Plus, Google's higher tier of ChromeOS laptops revealed last year, are slated to be Google's flagship platform for the best and brightest of Gemini, with a few tools and options that aren't available elsewhere.