Overview

• Google began rolling out AI Mode this week to roughly 40 additional regions and 35 new languages, surfacing as a dedicated tab in Search on desktop and mobile.
• Australia and Ireland are among the newly added markets, extending availability beyond earlier launches.
• In India, AI Mode gains support for Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu, and debuts Search Live for real-time help via voice and camera.
• The experience uses a query fan-out approach to decompose complex prompts and return consolidated responses with links and follow-up options.
• Google says the feature will default to traditional web results when confidence is low, as publishers highlight traffic declines linked to AI summaries and studies show fewer link clicks when summaries appear.