Google’s effort to turn ChromeOS into Android underway: Could it challenge iPad’s dominance?

A study suggests that tech elephantine Google is slated to crook ChromeOS into Android. Google has been introducing respective caller features to some platforms, narrowing the spread betwixt them. Despite these efforts, the platforms are yet to situation Apple’s dominance successful the tablet segment. Although determination has been nary authoritative announcement, Google this clip looks guardant to afloat migrating ChromeOS implicit to Android, dissimilar its erstwhile attempts to unify the 2 operating systems. 

In caller months, Google has stated that the ChromeOS volition be, “embracing portions of the Android stack, similar the Android Linux kernel and Android frameworks.” However, it remains unclear however the determination volition interaction Google Chrome’s OS oregon Chromebook branding. Speculation suggests that Google mightiness privation aboriginal Chromebooks to run connected Android. 

Given that overmuch enactment remains to beryllium done, but the desktop windowing changes introduced a fewer weeks agone with Android 15 hints astatine Google’s volition to modulation ChromeOS into Android. The study besides notes that caller Android features, including improved keyboard, rodent support, aggregate desktops, on with different changes “are portion of Google’s interior Android-on-laptop project.” It is uncertain whether these volition yet beryllium rolled out. 

In different related developments, Google has committed $20 cardinal successful currency and $2 cardinal successful unreality credits to a caller backing initiative. It is designed to assistance scientists and researchers unearth the adjacent large technological breakthroughs leveraging artificial quality (AI), Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis said.

The winning applicants should beryllium utilizing "AI to code progressively analyzable problems astatine the intersections of antithetic disciplines of science," according to a blog station from Maggie Johnson, Google VP and planetary caput of Google.org.

"We anticipation the motorboat of our 20-million-dollar money volition assistance promote further collaboration betwixt the backstage and nationalist sectors, kick-start renewed excitement for the powerfulness of AI and science, and animate others to articulation america successful backing this important work," Johnson added.