Google announces AI Mode, expands AI Overviews

Google has introduced a new AI Mode in their Search engine. Additionally, the company is also expanding AI Overviews.

Google’s VP of Product and Google Search Robby Stein reveals that there is a new Search mode in Google Labs called AI Mode. It aims to provide more advanced reasoning, thinking and multimodal capabilities to solve difficult questions. It uses a customized Gemini 2.0 to answer questions that need a further and elaborate answer.

AI Mode is currently being tested in Labs. Stein says in the article, “We aim to show an AI-powered response as much as possible, but in cases where we don’t have high confidence in helpfulness and quality, the response will be a set of web search results. As with any early-stage AI product, we won’t always get it right. For example, while we aim for AI responses in Search to present information objectively based on what’s available on the web, it’s possible that some responses may unintentionally appear to take on a persona or reflect a particular opinion.”

Google One AI Premium subscribers are able to try AI Mode in Labs. Stein states, “In this next testing phase, we’ll address these types of challenges and also rapidly make changes to the user experience based on the feedback we get. We’re already working on new capabilities and updates, like adding more visual responses with images and video, richer formatting, new ways to get to helpful web content and much more.”

Along with this announcement is AI Overviews is being expanded to assist more with coding, advanced math and multimodal queries. There will also be no more need to sign in for access to AI Overviews.