United Kingdom, Sept. 26 -- Google has confirmed it will merge ChromeOS with Android.

The company said the merger would unite its two operating systems in a shift that is designed to accelerate artificial intelligence development.

Speaking at Qualcomm's Summit event, Sameer Samat, Google's president for the Android ecosystem, made the announcement official. "I think the opportunity for us that we see is how do we accelerate all the AI advancement that we're doing on Android and bring that to the laptop form factor as rapidly as possible, and also have the laptop and the rest of the Android ecosystem work seamlessly together?"

Samat added: "Basically, we're taking the Chrome OS experience, and we're re-baselining the technology undernea...