AI Mode is Google’s most powerful AI search experience. You can ask anything and get an AI-powered response, with the ability to go deeper through follow-up questions and helpful links to the web. AI Mode expands what AI Overviews can do with more advanced reasoning and ways of interacting. It divides your question into subtopics and searches for each one simultaneously. This way, AI Mode can explore the web to find even more relevant content that matches your question.
AI Mode relies on Google Search's deep understanding of web information, meaning that responses are supported by high quality web content to improve factuality. In some cases, AI Mode will provide a set of web links if there’s not high enough confidence in the quality or helpfulness of an AI response. As with any early-stage AI product, AI Mode doesn’t always get it right. When this does happen, we encourage you to give feedback through thumbs up / thumbs down so we can continuously improve.
We’ll continue to refine AI Mode, expand its functionality, update the user interface and introduce new ways to help people access and engage with the web.
To get first access to new and experimental features in AI Mode, opt into the "AI Mode" experiment in Search Labs.
Tip: AI responses may include mistakes. Learn how data helps Google develop generative AI in Search.
AI Mode availability
- AI Mode is available to most users in the US and India. We're working on quickly expanding availability to more users, countries, and territories.
- For the best experience, enable Search history by turning on Web & App Activity. Without this setting enabled, you can still access AI Mode but can't pick up where you left off with previous searches.
- For Workspace users with Search and Assistant turned off, Search history is unavailable and can only be enabled by your Workspace administrator via the Admin console.
- For supervised children accounts, settings can be managed using the Family Link app.
How to access AI Mode
You can access AI Mode in three ways:
- Go to google.com/aimode.
- Go to www.google.com, enter a question in the Search bar, and tap AI Mode below the Search bar.
- On the Google app
, tap AI Mode
on the home screen.
How to use AI Mode
In AI Mode, you can:
- Ask any question with text, voice or images and get AI-powered responses.
- Ask follow-up questions on a topic.
- Explore topics in greater depth with information from a range of sources from the web.
- Pick up where you left off through AI Mode history
.
Use text to ask a question
- Enter your question in the Ask anything bar near the bottom of the screen.
- To ask a follow-up or a new question, type into the Ask anything bar near the bottom of the screen.
Use voice to ask a question
- Tap Microphone
in the Ask anything bar near the bottom of the screen.
- Say your question.
- To ask a follow-up or a new question, tap Microphone
Use images to ask a question
Important: This experience is only available in the Google app .
- In the Search bar, tap Lens
.
- Upload an image or take a photo.
- To ask a follow-up or a new question, type into the Ask anything bar near the bottom of the screen.
Tip: Tap All at the top of the screen to go back and forth between search results and AI Mode.
How AI Mode works
With AI mode, you can ask anything and get a comprehensive AI-powered response with links to explore further. You can ask questions that might have previously taken multiple searches – like exploring a new concept or comparing options – and you can ask follow-up questions. AI mode uses a “query fan-out” technique, dividing your question into subtopics and searching for each one simultaneously across multiple data sources. It then brings those results together to provide an easy-to-understand response. Learn more about AI Mode and AI Overviews in Search.
As with any early-stage AI product, AI Mode doesn’t always get it right. For example, in some cases AI Mode may misinterpret web content or miss context, as can happen with any automated system in Search.
How to double-check responses:
- Always check important info in more than one place. Click the links for AI sources and try other Google Search results too. Learn more about how to evaluate info you find with Google.
- Ask multiple versions of your question to get the best answers. Try asking for different opinions or ask for more details.
- Send feedback to Google if something doesn’t look right. Your feedback helps us improve AI Mode for everyone.
"AI Mode" in Search Labs
Important: AI Mode in Search Labs is available to all users 18 and above in English.
You can opt into the "AI Mode" experiment in Search Labs, our testbed for innovation, to explore more generative AI capabilities in Search. Learn more about where the “AI Mode” experiment is currently available.
Explore advanced capabilities in AI Mode
With Gemini 2.5 Pro in AI Mode, you can try advanced capabilities to get help with your toughest questions. Gemini 2.5 Pro excels at advanced reasoning, math, and coding questions, helping you with your complex learning needs with links to learn more. Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers can experience the 2.5 Pro model in Deep Search or select the 2.5 Pro model from the drop-down menu in the AI Mode tab. The default model in AI Mode will continue to be helpful for fast, all-around assistance on most questions.
You can access these advanced capabilities in AI Mode through Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra.
Delete AI Mode history saved in your account
- On your computer, go to AI Mode.
- On the left, click AI Mode history
- Select the AI Mode search you want to delete:
- A specific search: Click
next to the AI Mode history item.
- All your AI Mode history: Click
Delete all
.
- A specific search: Click
- You can also go to your Search History page and click
to delete the AI Mode activity saved in your account.
Delete all 
to delete the AI Mode activity saved in your account.What happens when you delete your AI Mode history
- If you delete searches from AI Mode history, they may still appear in My Activity for some time. These items will be auto-deleted in less than 24 hours. You can manually delete these searches from My Activity.
- When your search begins with an AI Overview and you choose to "Dive deeper in AI Mode," you might see two entries in your Search history for that interaction. The first entry represents your original query, and the second reflects the transition to AI Mode for follow-up questions. When you delete this search from AI Mode history, it will still appear in your Search history. To completely delete this specific search, you will also have to delete it from your Search history.
How data helps Google develop generative AI in Search
To develop and improve generative AI experiences in Search and the related machine learning technologies, Google uses people's interactions with Search and these AI experiences. This can include interactions like what people search for and what feedback they provide to Google. With user feedback and human reviews, we evaluate and improve the quality of our results and products responsibly.
When trained reviewers work to improve the quality of Search’s machine learning models, we take a number of precautions to protect users’ privacy:
- Data that reviewers see and annotate are disconnected from users’ accounts.
- Automated tools help recognize and remove a broad range of identifying info and sensitive personal information.
Give feedback
Your feedback helps us improve AI Mode. Here's how to share it:
- Rate the response:
- At the bottom of each AI Mode response, you'll find thumbs up
and thumbs down
icons.
- Click
- Click
- At the bottom of each AI Mode response, you'll find thumbs up
- Submit:
- Click Submit to send your feedback. The feedback you submit includes your most recent search query and its search results.