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Title: AI Mode is now rolling out to everyone in the US

Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 17:49:21 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/ai-mode-is-now-ro...

Google has begun rolling out AI Mode to every Search user in the US. The
company announced the expansion during its I/O 2025 conference. Google first
began previewing AI Mode with testers in its Labs program at the start of
March. Since then, it has been gradually rolling out the feature to more
people, including in recent weeks regular Search users.

For the uninitiated, AI Mode is a chatbot built directly into Google Search.
It lives in a separate tab, and was designed by the company to tackle more
complicated queries than people have historically used its search engine to
answer. For instance, you can use AI Mode to generate a comparison between
different fitness trackers. Before today, the chatbot was powered by Gemini
2.0. Now it's running a custom version of Gemini 2.5. What's more, Google
plans to bring many of AI Mode's capabilities to other parts of the Search
experience.

"AI Mode is where we'll first bring Gemini's frontier capabilities, and it's
also a glimpse of what's to come," the company wrote in a blog post published
during the event. "As we get feedback, we'll graduate many features and
capabilities from AI Mode right into the core search experience in AI
Overviews."

Looking to the future, Google plans to bring Deep Research to AI Mode. Google
was among the first companies to debut the tool back in December. Since then,
most AI companies, including OpenAI, have gone on to offer their take on Deep
Research, which you can use to prompt Gemini and other chatbots to take extra
time to create a comprehensive report on a subject. With today's
announcement, Google is making the tool available in a place where more of
its users are likely to encounter it.

Another new feature that's coming to AI Mode builds on the work Google did
with Project Mariner, the web-surfing AI agent the company began previewing
with "trusted testers" at the end of last year. This addition gives AI Mode
the ability to complete tasks for you on the web. For example, you can ask it
to find two affordable tickets for the next MLB game in your city. AI Mode
will compare "hundreds of potential" tickets for you and return with a few of
the best options. From there, you can complete a purchase without having done
the comparison work yourself.

"This will start with event tickets, restaurant reservations and local
appointments," says Google. "And we'll be working with companies like
Ticketmaster, StubHub, Resy and Vagaro to create a seamless and helpful
experience."

AI Mode will also soon include the ability to generate custom charts and
graphics tailored to your specific queries. Google first promised this back
when it initially previewed AI Mode, and now that it's finally available in
preview, AI Mode is becoming more visual. At the same time, AI Mode will soon
also be more personalized, with Google introducing an optional feature users
can toggle to allow the tool to pull on their past searches. The company will
also give people the option to connect their other Google apps, starting with
Gmail, to AI Mode. This will allow AI Mode to offer even more granular
recommendations.

Separately, Google is adding a suite of shopping features to AI Mode.
Engadget has a separate post dedicated to the Shopping features Google
announced today, but the short of it is that AI Mode will be able to narrow
down products for you and complete purchases on your behalf ΓÇô with your
permission, of course.

All of the new AI Mode features Google previewed today will be available to
Labs users first before they roll out more broadly.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/ai/ai-mode-is-now-ro...
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