Overview
- Two experimental buttons appear below the new tab search box in Canary, offering one-tap access to image generation and deep research tools.
- Clicking Nano Banana changes the box to say “Create an image,” letting users generate visuals from a text prompt or uploaded references.
- The Deep Search chip switches the prompt to “Help me research,” invoking Google’s multi-step, cited web research workflow.
- The features are not fully functional yet, with testers reporting instability and crashes, and they are not enabled for most users.
- The code is already in the Chromium project and can be tried by enabling the “NTP Next Features” flag in chrome://flags, a move that also underscores Google’s push to foreground its own AI in the browser against AI-focused rivals.