Overview

• AI Mode now shows image grids alongside text, accepts photo-initiated queries, and preserves chat context for conversational refinements.
• Google introduced a “visual search fan-out” that runs multiple background queries to interpret images using Lens, Image Search, and Gemini 2.5.
• Shoppable results draw from the Shopping Graph with 50+ billion listings, showing prices and availability and linking to retailers with no revenue share.
• Each image links to its source, can be expanded or added to the AI conversation, and users can combine images with natural-language prompts.
• On mobile, users can search within a specific image and ask follow-up questions, with the U.S. English rollout starting this week and taking a few days to reach everyone.