Google AI Mode: Availability Tracker, Timeline and Features

Google launched AI Mode ("Mode IA") and AI Overviews ("Aperçus IA") in France on July 22, in a post by Sébastien Missoffe, vice president and managing director of Google France.

AI Mode arrived complete rather than staged: desktop and mobile web plus the Google app on Android and iOS, Search Live voice and camera input, query fan-out, the new intelligent search box, and Gemini 3.5 credited for the reasoning and multimodal understanding.

Google's French post repeats the framing this page tracks, an AI Mode search running about three times longer than a traditional one, and the same division of labor, an overview for the gist and AI Mode for the follow-ups.

France was the last major market without AI Mode, excluded from the October 2025 European wave over the press neighboring-rights standoff, and the launch lands two months inside the September 23 date Google committed to in June.

The publisher terms that made it possible are the part to watch: Google has neighboring-rights contracts with about 450 French publishers and press agencies and told them AI answers would count toward those payments.

Its launch post also points site owners at the Search Console control that keeps a site out of Search's generative AI features, notes that the control is available in France, and repeats that it is not a ranking signal outside those features.

No collective agreement has been announced and negotiations continue; the fuller publisher picture is in our AI Overviews coverage of the launch.

Google announced three new Gemini models on July 21: 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber. One line in the post concerns Search: "3.5 Flash-Lite is also rolling out in Google Search." Google describes Flash-Lite as its fastest and most cost-effective 3.5-class model, at roughly 350 output tokens per second, built for low-latency, high-throughput agentic tasks.

What that means for Search is not spelled out, and this is where the speculation starts. The post gives no detail on what Flash-Lite does inside Search and never mentions AI Overviews or AI Mode.

What we can state holds steady: AI Mode's answers run on Gemini 3.5 Flash, which became the global default at I/O 2026, and Google has not said that changed.

Search Engine Land reports Google tied Flash-Lite to "agentic search" and speculates it "might be used for Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode as well", but presents that as a possibility rather than a confirmed change.

We are logging the model reaching Search and will update this entry if Google confirms where Flash-Lite is actually used.

Google started letting people connect apps to AI Mode, moving it from answering questions toward completing tasks.

Connect Instacart and AI Mode can add ingredients straight into your Instacart shopping cart; connect Canva and you can ask it to show template options for something like a flyer; connect YouTube Music and it can curate a playlist and save it to the app.

Google framed it as "starting to roll out this week in the U.S." and said "we're working with a range of partners and look forward to launching with more apps soon".

It is Google's answer to the app connections ChatGPT and Claude already offer, per TechCrunch, now inside the search box more than 9 in 10 searches run through. Google pairs it with Personal Intelligence, the opt-in feature that connects Gmail and Photos, so with both switched on Search can give "even more tailored responses".

Google did not say whether connecting apps needs a subscription, and it is US-only for now, so there is no new SEO surface to act on yet; we track it here as AI Mode keeps absorbing tasks that were never search queries.

Google Search VP of Product Robby Stein announced on X that Personal Intelligence in Search "now connects to Google Calendar", per Search Engine Journal. AI Mode can "add invites or other meetings to your Calendar directly", and its answers can take account of plans that are already in there.

That makes Calendar different from the two apps Personal Intelligence already used. Gmail and Google Photos hand AI Mode information to read, and Calendar is the first connection it can also write to. Ask for dinner options and the answer can work around a meeting you have already booked. Mention an invitation and AI Mode can create the entry without you opening Calendar, as Digital Trends describes it.

Stein said it is available in the US with more countries to come, and Google has given no date for them. Google previewed a Calendar connection at I/O in May without a timeline, in the same announcement that took Personal Intelligence to nearly 200 countries and 98 languages with no subscription. Google's AI Mode help page now lists Gmail and Google Calendar together as the Workspace apps Personal Intelligence connects to.

The part to watch is what personalization does to measurement. Both outlets point to iPullRank testing that found connecting Gmail changed which brands appeared in AI Mode answers to identical prompts, and Calendar adds timing to that mix, so two people can ask the same question and get different answers because their evenings differ. There is still no way to see any of it from the outside. Search Console's Generative AI reports carry impressions only, with no queries and no clicks.

Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute rated Google Search's AI features "Unacceptable Risk", its lowest tier, for children. Across 2,624 test interactions in seven test plans, AI Mode and AI Overviews failed seven of the Institute's eight AI principles and all five severe-harm "Red Lines". The assessment's headline: "Google Search's AI answers are not safe enough to be kids' default answer machine."

AI Mode, the conversational tab, did better than the automatic AI Overview on most measures: it routed 77% of crisis prompts to an appropriate resource against AI Overviews' 58%. But it still failed all five severe-harm Red Lines, and it completed 100% of the homework assignments testers gave it.

As PBS reported, neither feature can be switched off by parents or schools, unlike the standalone Gemini app. Google said its AI features have "strong quality and safety guardrails" and called the testing flawed for using "a narrow set of ambiguous and contrived queries".

Google Search VP of Product Robby Stein announced on X on June 30 that AI Mode now shows "prominent links at the top of responses with useful details and images" for relevant recipe queries, including the creator name, recipe ratings and the number of ingredients, per Search Engine Journal.

"We've heard feedback on recipe results in AI Mode, and we're making updates to better connect people with recipe creators on the web," Stein wrote. It builds on the recipe panel Google added in March, which let people tap a dish to open links to recipe sites.

Creators are not sold yet. Android Authority's coverage found food writers still wary of how AI Mode handles their work: one describes full AI recipes as ranging "from verbatim plagiarism to wildly inaccurate representations", and more prominent links only help if people click them. We will watch whether the change registers as impressions in Search Console's Generative AI reports.

Google told French publishers, in a letter reported via Ouest-France, that AI Mode and AI Overviews will launch in France by September 23, 2026. France is the last major market without either feature, having been excluded from the October 2025 European rollout over the press neighboring-rights standoff.

The terms are the story: Google committed to a publisher opt-out, transparency about AI-driven traffic, and compensation under neighboring rights. That goes further than what publishers get anywhere else except the UK, where the CMA ordered an opt-out in June, and it sets a precedent every other press market can point at.

Google began rolling out information agents in AI Mode on June 12, the first of the Search agents announced at I/O 2026 to reach users.

Ask AI Mode to "keep me updated on" or "alert me when" something and the agent keeps working after you close the tab: it watches blogs, news sites, social posts and real-time finance, shopping and sports data, then sends an update with links when something new appears, per 9to5Google's rollout coverage.

Availability is the caveat: information agents are exclusive to Google AI Ultra subscribers at launch, across every AI Mode language and market, with AI Pro access to follow later in the summer. For SEO this is a new surface to be cited on without being searched for, since the agent decides which pages are worth sending. We will watch whether agent-driven impressions show up in Search Console's Generative AI reports.

A Chrome Canary experiment that routed address-bar searches into AI Mode set off a wave of "AI Mode is becoming the default" reports. Google Search VP Rajan Patel shut the speculation down on the record: "This is an error, and we do not plan to make AI mode the default behavior for Chrome search."

That matches Google's line at I/O 2026: AI Mode is a tab and an entry point, not the default search experience, even as AI Overviews (which do show by default) hand off into it. We track this distinction in the availability table because "is AI Mode the default now?" is the most common misreading of Google's announcements.

Google announced Search Generative AI performance reports for Search Console: dedicated reporting for AI Overviews, AI Mode and Discover AI. The catch: the reports cover impressions, not clicks, so publishers can finally see how often they appear in AI surfaces but still cannot measure what that appearance does to their traffic.

On scope Google said only that the reports go to "a subset of website owners", naming no country in the post or in the help pages. Trade coverage reported the first properties to get them were UK ones, and Search Engine Journal was still describing it three weeks later as limited testing with a select group of UK sites. Sightings elsewhere followed quickly, so treat the UK framing as where it was first observed rather than as a stated rollout order.

The same release added a control to block content from Google's AI features, the first explicit AI opt-out in the product. Until now AI Mode traffic has been invisible as such: since June 2025 it has been lumped into the "Web" search type with no filter. Full context in the SEO impact section.

A week before Search Console got its generative AI reports, Google announced the retailer equivalent: AI performance insights in Merchant Center, covering shopping journeys that start in AI Mode, AI Overviews or the Gemini app.

Four components. Share of voice benchmarks a brand "against brands similar to yours on shopping journeys starting from AI Mode, AI Overviews, or the Gemini app".

Shopping funnel performance splits that across discovery, evaluation and purchase. Product term insights show popular product terms and a brand's share of them, and product attributes insights score attribute completeness so a merchant can see what its feed is missing.

For anyone tracking what AI Mode does to their business, this is the second Google-owned measurement surface in a fortnight and the first aimed at retailers rather than site owners.

It also has the same hole: Search Console reports impressions, Merchant Center reports share, and neither reports clicks from an AI answer.

Treat it as announced rather than shipped. Google said it "will be rolled out to the U.S., Canada, Australia, India, and New Zealand in the coming months", with no date and no word on general availability, and it has published no methodology for how share of voice is calculated. PPC Land covered the announcement the same day.

At I/O 2026 Sundar Pichai said AI Mode had "surpassed 1 billion monthly active users" within a year, with queries more than doubling every quarter. Gemini 3.5 Flash became the default model globally, AI Mode and AI Overviews merged into a single flow worldwide, and Google shipped what it called the biggest upgrade to the search box in more than 25 years.

The roadmap: Search agents for Pro and Ultra subscribers in the summer, generative UI free for everyone "this summer", expanded agentic business-calling, and Personal Intelligence reaching about 200 countries and 98 languages without a subscription. Google was explicit that AI Mode is still not the default search experience.

This is the clearest causal evidence so far that AI Mode and AI Overviews do different things to a content platform, and they point opposite ways. It comes from a working paper by Peibo Zhang, Ruomeng Cui and Dennis J. Zhang, posted to arXiv and not yet peer reviewed.

The design uses Google's own content policy as a natural experiment. Safe-for-work subreddits can be cited in both AI Overviews and AI Mode, while not-safe-for-work subreddits are indexed in organic search but barred from both, which gives a treatment group and a control group inside one platform.

The AI Overviews baseline is covered in full on the AI Overviews hub. Daily comments rose 12.0% and daily commenting users 12.4% against the control after the August 2024 rollout, concentrated in advice and opinion communities rather than factual ones.

The explanation the authors give for that gain is what makes the AI Mode result follow. A static summary cannot reproduce a discussion thread, so for opinion and advice it worked as a discovery route into one rather than a replacement for it.

Then the interface changed. Extending the panel to December 2025 and taking the 21st August 2025 global rollout as a second treatment date, the premium on experience-based communities falls 59% for commenting users and turns slightly negative for comments.

The reading is that a conversational interface delivers the depth a static summary could not, so the reason to click through into the discussion goes away. Where AI Overviews complemented the platform, AI Mode substitutes for it.

The authors test the obvious alternative, that users simply grew to trust AI answers over time, and argue against it three ways. A trust story predicts the decline should land on factual content, where the summary already answers the question, and it lands on opinion and advice instead.

They also find a discrete break at the AI Mode launch rather than a slow drift, and their day fixed effects absorb any trend in AI trust shared across communities.

Two limits belong with this. The authors flag the short post-AI-Mode window themselves, so it measures attenuation in progress rather than a settled end state, and they cannot say whether it stabilises or runs on towards full substitution.

And it counts comments and commenters inside Reddit, not clicks, referral sessions or publisher traffic. It is not a measurement of what AI Mode does to your site, which is why it carries no row in any statistics table here.

SISTRIX tracked 82,619 prompts once a week from 17th December 2025 to 8th April 2026 across AI Mode, AI Overviews and ChatGPT Search in six countries. AI Mode churns hard: each answer cites 14 to 16 domains and 56% of them are new every week.

The churn is not evenly spread. In 86.5% of prompts there is a stable core of one to five domains that persist for months, while 89% of the domains outside that core rotate weekly.

So the useful question for a site owner is not whether it appears in AI Mode but whether it sits in the core or in the rotating remainder.

The pattern barely varies by market. Weekly churn ran between 54% and 59% in Germany, the US, the UK, Italy, Spain and France, with 11.8 to 16.1 domains cited per answer, and it showed no sign of settling over the 17 weeks.

YouTube and Amazon turn up in the core often, which is no surprise. More usefully, in 83% of prompts at least one specialist domain sits in the core alongside them, so the core is not closed to smaller sites.

The contrast with AI Overviews is the finding that matters most for anyone treating the two surfaces as one thing. AI Overviews are frozen for just over half of prompts, and on the same prompt the two products cite different domains 83% of the time, a Jaccard overlap of 0.17.

ChatGPT Search churns hardest at 74% a week, and from a much shorter list: 3 to 4 domains per answer against AI Mode's 14 to 16.

The window closed six weeks before I/O 2026 merged AI Overviews and AI Mode, so it measures them as the separate surfaces they then were.

Content type predicted durability better than anything else measured: news articles held a place in a stable core only 1.4% of the time, while video was highest at 24%.

This is SISTRIX's own AI research index, so it is vendor panel data rather than ground truth, and the study calls its own figures conservative: measured per URL instead of per domain, weekly drift runs about 15% higher. PPC Land covered it the day it was published.

Robby Stein, VP of Product for Search, and Mike Torres, VP of Product for Chrome, announced that "when you're using AI Mode on Chrome desktop, clicking a link opens the webpage side-by-side with AI Mode". Google's stated purpose is to make it easier to "visit relevant websites, compare details and ask follow-up questions while still maintaining the context of your search".

The same post added context from tabs. A plus menu on the New Tab page and inside AI Mode, on Chrome desktop and mobile, pulls recent tabs, images and files such as PDFs into a query, several at once. Canvas and image creation sit in that menu too.

Everything announced that day was live in the US only, with Google saying it would "expand soon to more places around the world". TechCrunch reported the same scope.

What makes it matter here is what a click becomes. A visit that no longer costs the reader their conversation is a visit they have less reason to abandon, which is the mechanism behind Google's standing claim that its AI features spread traffic across more sites.

The other reading is that the page now renders inside a layout Google controls. Google has published nothing about what a side-by-side visit looks like from the publisher's side, and Search Console still reports impressions rather than clicks for AI surfaces, so there is no way for a site owner to isolate it.

Google announced that the Google app for desktop is "now available for Windows users globally in English", in a post by Vinay Mahagaokar, a group product manager on Search. "With AI Mode built right in, you can ask whatever's on your mind and get helpful AI-powered responses with links to the web."

The app had been a Search Labs experiment since September 2025, US only and capacity limited. 9to5Google reported it is now on Windows 10 and later "around the world after previously requiring Google Labs sign-up".

Pressing Alt and Space opens a floating search box over whatever is on screen. It searches the web, Google Drive, installed apps and files on the computer, takes a shared window or whole screen for contextual questions, and uses Lens to select things on screen.

Google's help page puts the requirements at Windows 10 or later, English and age 13 or over, and adds that "AI Mode is not yet supported for all accounts, countries, and languages". The app's global reach is therefore not the same thing as AI Mode's.

What makes it notable on this page is the surface. Every other way into AI Mode is a browser tab, the Google app on a phone, or something inside Chrome. This one is an operating-system-level shortcut that opens into AI Mode without a browser at all.

Google expanded agentic restaurant booking to eight new markets: Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

Describe the table you want ("a table for two at a dog-friendly Italian restaurant in Shoreditch for Saturday at 7 p.m.") and AI Mode checks availability across reservation platforms and returns bookable options with direct links; UK partners include OpenTable, TheFork, SevenRooms, ResDiary, Mozrest, Foodhub, Dojo and DesignMyNight.

Rose Yao, VP of Product Management, announced the expansion on X as taking agentic restaurant booking in Search global.

The gates came off with the geography: no Labs opt-in or subscription is required in the new markets. The feature had launched in August 2025 for US Google AI Ultra subscribers only and reached all opted-in US Labs users that November, so this was the step that turned a premium US experiment into a plain AI Mode capability.

Search Live expanded globally to all 200+ AI Mode countries and languages, upgraded to the Gemini 3.1 Flash Live model. Search Live is AI Mode's real-time layer: a spoken conversation with Search that can also watch through your camera. It launched in the US in mid-2025 and had been limited to the US and India before this expansion.

Canvas reached general availability for everyone in the US. Introduced through Labs in July 2025, Canvas opens a side panel where AI Mode drafts and iterates on documents, code and simple apps across a session, powered by Gemini 3. It is the clearest example of AI Mode absorbing assistant-style work that would never have been a classic search query.

Google Search SVP Nick Fox announced 53 new AI Mode languages, the largest single language addition since launch, taking AI Mode to just under 100 languages and covering roughly a billion more people. The path to here: English only at launch (March 2025), five languages including Hindi, Japanese and Korean (September 2025), Spanish (September 2025), 35+ more in the big October 2025 wave, and now 53 at once.

Alphabet's Q4 2025 earnings gave the deepest usage picture yet: daily AI Mode queries per US user have doubled since launch, AI Mode queries are about three times longer than traditional searches, and roughly 1 in 6 arrive as voice or image rather than text. Monetization remains in "early stages", with a Direct Offers pilot testing merchant offers inside answers.

Sundar Pichai also addressed the existential question directly, saying AI Mode is not cannibalizing core Search. Publishers have no independent data to test that, which is the recurring theme of AI Mode's SEO story.

Alongside making Gemini 3 the global default for AI Overviews, Google shipped a mobile handoff: continuing from an AI Overview opens an AI Mode conversation that already carries the query and answer context. Google's framing: "one fluid experience... a quick snapshot when you need it, and deeper conversation when you want it."

This was the moment the two products stopped being separate features. The full merger followed at I/O 2026 in May.

Google launched Personal Intelligence for AI Mode: an opt-in connection to Gmail and Google Photos that personalizes answers with your own context, starting with US English AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. By I/O 2026 Google said it would reach about 200 countries and 98 languages without requiring a subscription.

Google made Gemini 3 Flash the default AI Mode model globally, pitching it as "frontier intelligence built for speed" with faster reasoning on complex questions. A month after Gemini 3 reached AI Mode as a subscriber option, every AI Mode user worldwide was getting a Gemini 3 model by default.

The same update opened Gemini 3 Pro to everyone in the US through the "Thinking with 3 Pro" picker and expanded Nano Banana Pro image generation to more US users, with AI Pro and Ultra subscribers keeping higher usage limits. The default changed again at I/O 2026, when Gemini 3.5 Flash took over globally.

Ahrefs captured an AI Mode response and an AI Overview for the same query and compared the pair, across 540,000 query pairs for citations and 730,000 for content, using September 2025 US data from its Brand Radar index. The two surfaces cited the same URL 13.7% of the time, rising only to 16.3% across the top three citations in each response.

From AI Mode's side the differences are consistent. It cites sources in 97% of responses, where AI Overviews return none at all in 11% of theirs. It names 2.5 times as many people and brand entities, 3.3 per response against 1.3. And it leans harder on reference material: Wikipedia supplies 28.9% of its citations against 18.1% of AI Overviews', and Quora appears 3.5 times as often.

The answers agreed even where the sources did not. Response pairs scored 86% semantic similarity on average, with 89.7% above 0.8 on a scale where 1.0 means identical meaning. Despina Gavoyannis and Xibeijia Guan put it plainly: "9 out of 10 times, AI Mode and AI Overview agreed on what to say".

One number needs keeping straight. The study also reports a Jaccard figure of 0.16, and that one measures words rather than sources: only 16% of the unique words overlapped between the two responses, and they opened with the same first sentence 2.51% of the time. Each surface researches and writes its own answer.

For a site owner the practical line is that visibility does not carry across. Being cited by one surface says little about the other, though Ahrefs found that a brand mentioned in an AI Overview has a 61% chance of also appearing in AI Mode's longer response.

The study states its own limit. It compares single generations, and Ahrefs' earlier work found 45% of AI Overview citations changing between generations of the same answer, so the pool each surface draws on may overlap more than one snapshot shows. The panel is Ahrefs' own index rather than ground truth.

The data is from September 2025, eight months before Google merged the two surfaces into one experience at I/O 2026, so it describes them as separate products. SISTRIX measured the same divergence on a different panel in early 2026, finding the two citing different domains 83% of the time and AI Mode replacing 56% of its cited domains every week, so the split held across two panels, two methods and five months.

Google expanded Gemini 3 Pro in AI Mode to nearly 120 countries and territories in English, for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, two weeks after its US debut. Nano Banana Pro, the Gemini 3 Pro image model that can turn answers into visuals and infographics, expanded to more countries alongside it.

For the first time, a new Gemini model reached Search on its launch day: Gemini 3 arrived in AI Mode the day it was announced, for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US through a new "Thinking" option in the model picker, with a broader US rollout to follow.

Gemini 3 also brought generative UI to AI Mode: dynamic visual layouts and interactive tools and simulations built for the specific question, such as a physics simulation or a custom loan calculator. Complex questions route to the frontier model while faster models handle simpler ones, and an upgraded query technique made the web searches AI Mode runs behind an answer smarter.

Google made the AI Mode button on Chrome's mobile new-tab page official: a pill-shaped shortcut under the search bar on Android and iOS, starting in the US with 160 more countries and additional languages, including Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese, to follow. After the Chrome desktop omnibox in September, this put AI Mode one tap from the mobile browser's front door.

The same update took agentic booking beyond Ultra subscribers: any US user opted into the "Agentic capabilities in AI Mode" Labs experiment now gets it, and it can work through event tickets and beauty and wellness appointments as well as restaurant reservations, using Project Mariner's live web browsing. AI Pro and Ultra subscribers keep higher usage limits.

Alphabet's Q3 2025 earnings put the first daily usage number on AI Mode: more than 75 million daily active users, in 40 languages, with US queries doubling over the quarter and over 100 product improvements shipped in Q3. Google described strong and consistent week-over-week usage growth since launch.

The framing also debuted the argument Google has repeated since: AI Mode and AI Overviews are driving incremental query growth for Search. The disclosures continued at Q4 (daily queries per US user doubled since launch) and I/O 2026 (past 1 billion monthly users).

Google shipped AI Mode's biggest expansion to date: more than 35 new languages and over 40 new countries and territories, taking AI Mode past 200 countries and territories in total, rolling out over the following week on the custom Gemini model for Search.

It was AI Mode's first EU availability, with Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland among the new markets, and Google noted AI Mode questions run nearly three times longer than traditional searches.

The notable absence was France, left out over the press neighboring-rights standoff. It stayed the last major market without AI Mode until July 22, 2026, when Google switched both AI Mode and AI Overviews on there under commitments to a publisher opt-out and neighboring-rights compensation.

Google confirmed to Search Engine Land at the end of September that Search and Shopping ads had begun rolling out inside AI Mode in the US, on desktop and mobile, saying the rollout had started earlier that week.

There was no standalone Google post for the milestone; the plan dated to Google Marketing Live in May, when Google said Sponsored-labeled Search and Shopping ads would come to US AI Mode from existing Search, Shopping and Performance Max campaigns using broad match.

Google has kept the testing frame ever since: its own 2025 highlights page still describes ads in AI Mode as a US test, appearing below and integrated into AI Mode responses, and Alphabet was calling AI Mode monetization early stages as late as its Q4 2025 earnings. The US remains the only market with ads in AI Mode.

Google made Search Live generally available in English across the US, no Labs opt-in required. Search Live is a hands-free conversation with Search that can also watch through your camera: tap the new Live icon under the search bar in the Google app on Android or iOS, or start it from Lens, and talk back and forth while it answers aloud with web links on screen.

It had been a US Labs experiment since June 2025, voice first, with camera input added in July. The global expansion to every AI Mode country and language followed in March 2026.

As part of a broader set of Chrome AI announcements, Google brought AI Mode to the Chrome desktop omnibox: an option in the address bar to ask complex, multi-part questions and keep asking follow-ups without leaving the page you are on, rolling out in the US in English with "more countries and languages in the weeks ahead".

The address bar is the most direct entry point in the browser, so this put AI Mode one click from every search a Chrome user makes. It is an option, not a new default: when a Chrome Canary flag later routed address-bar searches into AI Mode automatically, Google called it an error and denied any plan to make AI Mode the default for Chrome search.

Google added five new AI Mode languages: Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese. AI Mode had been English-only for the six months since its March 2025 launch, even as it spread to 180+ new countries in August, so this was the start of its multilingual era.

The pace from here was steep: Spanish followed within weeks, 35+ more languages arrived in the October 2025 wave, and a 53-language addition in February 2026 took AI Mode to just under 100 languages.

Google expanded AI Mode to over 180 new countries and territories in English, up from just the US, India and the UK. The EU was not part of this wave; EU availability came with the 40-country, 35-language expansion in October 2025.

The same announcement shipped AI Mode's first agentic booking flow, restaurant reservations for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US via Labs, plus US personalization starting with dining recommendations and links for sharing an AI Mode conversation with others.