Google expands its AI-powered search experience – to five new languages, opening access to additional users around the world after being restricted to English for more than six months.
On Monday, Google announced that AI mode will support Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese. The update follows the rollout of the AI-powered experience last month, with experience in 180 new markets in English, following the launch of the first in English and then expanded to the UK and India.
“This expansion allows more people to use AI modes to ask complex questions in their preferred language.
The AI mode, first deployed in March as an experiment with Google One AI premium subscribers, is Google’s answer to AI search platforms such as Perplexity and Openai’s ChatGPT search. This feature utilizes a customized version of Gemini 2.5 with multimodal and inference features.
In August, Google introduced agent functionality in AI mode, finding restaurant reservations and planning future reservations for local services and event tickets. These updates are currently limited to Google AI Ultra Subscribers in the US and can be used through LABS’s “AI Mode Agent Function” experiment. The Ultra Tier price is $249.99 per month.
So far, Google’s AI mode can be accessed through the dedicated tabs on the search results page and the buttons in the search bar. As Google Deepmind’s group product manager Logan Kilpatrick shows, the company appears to be working on making this Aire LED search experience the default “SOON” as Google Deepmind’s group product manager Logan Kilpatrick shows, responding to user posts from X last week.
Google’s recent AI updates, including AI modes and an AI overview, have been criticized for affecting search clicks. However, Google denied last month that its AI search capabilities were killing website traffic.
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