Chrome’s AI Mode is getting a full Google Drive picker

Google appears to have taken another step toward making AI Mode more useful inside Chrome.

If you’ve been experimenting with AI Mode in Chrome Canary, you may have already seen an “Add from Drive” option in the attachment menu. The feature wasn’t entirely new. Users could expose it by enabling the right flag, but the button never actually worked. Clicking it simply did nothing.

That’s now changed.

According to Windows Report, the latest Chrome Canary update finally brings the feature to life. Instead of leading nowhere, the “Add from Drive” button now opens Google’s native Drive picker, letting you browse and attach files stored in your Google Drive account.

The picker isn’t a watered-down version either. It includes a search bar, lets you sort files by name or recent activity, and offers both grid and list layouts. You can also filter results by file type, including Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDFs, images, videos, and folders.

Another useful addition is multi-file selection. Instead of attaching documents one by one, you can select several files at once before sending them to AI Mode.

The publication also tested the feature after attaching documents. In its testing, AI Mode was able to read the uploaded files and answer questions using information from inside them, including specific technical details contained in the documents.

I tried checking the feature on a Mac running Chrome Canary version 152.0.7938.0, but I couldn’t get the “Add from Drive” option to appear at all, even with the #composebox-drive-context-menu-option flag enabled. So it’s possible that the feature only works on Windows right now.

Google has been steadily adding more AI Mode features to Chrome over the past few months. Last month, we covered the company’s work on a dedicated AI Mode button for the browser toolbar, making the feature easier to access without opening a new page.

Another Canary experiment briefly routed address bar searches directly into AI Mode before Google later described the behavior as an error. Even so, it offered another glimpse at how deeply AI Mode could eventually be integrated into Chrome.

For users who aren’t interested in AI features, Google also added a way to remove the AI Mode shortcut from the address bar.

For now, the Google Drive picker remains a Chrome Canary feature, and even there, it doesn’t appear to be available to everyone yet.

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