Google is rolling out AI Mode - its new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered answer engine-style search experience - to all users in India just two weeks after launching it as an experiment. This will make India the first country outside the United States where the feature is being made widely available. AI Mode is Google's attempt to counter rivals such as Perplexity and OpenAI's ChatGPT in how consumers seek information. The feature was first announced in March in the United States.
AI Mode is accessible through a dedicated tab on the Search results page, and allows users to ask longer, more complex and nuanced questions that would have previously required multiple searches. At Google I/O 2025 in May, CEO Sundar Pichai said that early testers asked queries that were often two to three times longer and sometimes even up to five times the length of traditional searches.
AI Mode will also be available through the search bar in the Google app in the coming days. Aside of typing out the query, people can also speak, or snap a photo with Lens to receive a rich, in-depth response with links and explore further through follow-up questions.
AI Mode combines advanced capabilities of Google’s AI models with access to information systems, including real-time sources such as the Knowledge Graph, real-world data, and shopping information for billions of products.
It uses a technique called "query fan-out," which breaks down a question into different subtopics and concurrently searches on each of them across multiple data sources. The results are then brought together into a single, easy-to-understand response.
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