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Google Launches AI Mode in India to Enable Deeper Multimodal Searches

The experimental search tool builds on AI Overviews, offering Gemini2.5-powered reasoning through voice, text, visual queries, follow-up questions in English via Google Labs.

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Google is also integrating AI Mode in Google Lens to let users ask queries about an image
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Overview

  • Google rolled out AI Mode in India on June 24, making the feature available to English-speaking users through Google Labs.
  • Powered by a custom Gemini2.5 model, AI Mode breaks complex questions into subtopics and delivers summarized responses with relevant links.
  • The feature supports voice, text and image inputs, allowing users to ask detailed questions and receive context-rich answers.
  • AI Mode taps into real-time data from Google’s Knowledge Graph and shopping systems to provide up-to-date information and product comparisons.
  • Early adopters have used the tool for multi-layered tasks such as trip planning and in-depth how-tos, submitting queries two to three times longer than standard searches.