Sept 18 (Reuters) - Google will integrate Gemini into

its Chrome browser for users in the U.S. starting Thursday, just

weeks after a federal judge spared the company from a forced

breakup in an antitrust case.

Alphabet-owned Google won't have to sell the

browser, a judge in Washington said earlier this month, handing

a rare win to Big Tech in its battle with U.S. antitrust

enforcers, but ordered it to share data with rivals to open up

competition in online search.

The Gemini AI models add-on to Chrome will be available to

Mac and Windows desktop users in the U.S. with their language

set to English, Google said in a blog post on Thursday.

Starting soon, Apple's ( AAPL ) iOS Chrome app will also

have Gemini built into it.

Gemini in Chrome will roll out to businesses in the coming

weeks via Google Workspace and also on mobile phones in the U.S.

The tech giant also built a deeper integration between

Gemini in Chrome and other Google apps, such as Calendar,

YouTube and Maps.

Google will add agentic capabilities that can perform

multi-step tasks to Gemini in Chrome in the coming months. It

will also find previously visited webpages and enable

summarization of content from multiple websites, among other

upgrades.

The integration is also a push to compete against other

companies providing agentic browsers, like Perplexity, which in

August made a $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for

Chrome.

Its AI-powered browser, Comet, can perform certain tasks on

a user's behalf.

The ruling by Judge Amit Mehta earlier in September allows

Google to retain control of Chrome and Android mobile operating

system, while barring certain exclusive contracts with device

makers and browser developers. Google can continue making

payments to partners such as Apple ( AAPL ) to feature its search engine,

a practice central to its dominance in online search.

Apple ( AAPL ) has approached Google to use Gemini AI to revamp the

Siri voice assistant, Bloomberg News had reported in August.