Google Upgrades Search AI With Gemini 2.0 and New AI Mode
Google expands AI Overviews to over a billion users with a Gemini 2.0 upgrade and launches a new AI Mode experiment for complex queries.
Google updates its Search platform by upgrading AI Overviews with the advanced Gemini 2.0 model. This upgrade specifically targets difficult queries involving coding, advanced math, and multimodal requests, delivering faster and higher quality responses. Additionally, the company expands access by allowing teens to use the feature and removing the sign-in requirement entirely.
The tech giant also introduces a new experimental feature called AI Mode within Search Labs. Designed for power users, this new mode leverages a custom version of Gemini 2.0 to provide advanced reasoning, thinking, and multimodal capabilities. It allows users to tackle complex, multi-part questions that previously required multiple separate searches.
AI Mode excels at exploring new concepts, making detailed comparisons, and handling nuanced questions that need deeper investigation. Users easily ask follow-up questions to dig deeper into topics while still receiving helpful web links to verify information. By combining these advanced model capabilities with Google's massive information systems, the company builds a highly integrated AI experience directly into Search.