Google’s AI agent Jarvis has been leaked in the Chrome Store

by Junna Base November 7, 2024

Key insights

Google’s Project Jarvis tool has leaked on the Chrome Web Store for a limited time.
By analyzing screenshots, tasks like reservations and grocery shopping could be automated.
Users should expect a release alongside or after Gemini 2.0 in about a month.

Google’s latest consumer-focused AI trick just leaked enough to make you wonder if it really was a coincidence. A Chrome Web Store page described Jarvis as “a helpful companion that surfs the web for you,” and while the public only knew minimal details at the moment, it certainly got people talking.

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The leak comes a week after we first heard about Project Jarvis, so it doesn’t come entirely out of the blue. In fact, Google’s plan to slowly roll out the tool for testing purposes may be related to its accidental release on the Chrome Web Store. Jarvis appears to be similar to a feature recently added to Anthropic’s Claude LLM that takes over your computer’s cursor and performs mundane, tedious tasks. In the case of the Chrome extension, these include reservations and grocery shopping.

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It supposedly works by taking and analyzing screenshots and running them through Gemini 2.0 before deciding what actions to take. In this sense, it is similar to Apple Intelligence’s “Onscreen Awareness” as well as the basic approach of the controversial Microsoft Recall.

Some users were able to download the extension but were unable to use it. It most likely won’t go live until Gemini 2.0 is officially released, which should be sometime next month. For now, we’ll all have to be content with surfing the Internet alone, like some kind of caveman without AI.