Google Expands AI Mode To All With Gmail Integration And Real-Time Camera Access

Google is bringing its new AI Mode in Search to all users in the United States, and bringing a ton of new features, including camera access, a custom version of Gemini under the hood, Gmail integration, and more.

Announced today at Google I/O, AI Mode is now available to all US users. The focused version of Google Search distills results into AI-generated summaries with links to certain topics. Unlike AI Overviews, which appear above traditional search results, AI Mode is a dedicated interface where you interact almost exclusively with AI.

Google first launched AI Mode through Labs last year, but is now expanding it to all US users “over the coming weeks.” When the feature is available, you’ll see a tab for AI Mode in Search on the web and in the Google app on mobile.

AI Mode is also getting some upgrades with this expansion.

Firstly, Google says that both AI Mode and AI Overviews are now powered by a “custom version of Gemini 2.5.” The company also teases that this experience is where “we’ll first bring Gemini’s frontier capabilities” with features from AI Mode eventually making their way into Search through Overviews.

Google is also expanding “Deep Search” into AI Mode, which uses the “fan-out technique” to “issue hundreds of searches, reason across disparate pieces of information, and create an expert-level fully-cited report in just minutes.” This is similar to the “Deep Research” mode already available in the regular Gemini experience.

Similarly, Google is also bringing Gemini Live’s experience to Search and Lens. A new “Live” icon will appear in both features with the ability to use real-time video from your phone’s camera as well as your voice to better inform Search what you’re trying to figure out. This is also used to better find appropriate resources on the web “like websites, videos, forums, and more,” Google says.

“Project Mariner” in AI Mode will also allow Google Search to act as an agent on your behalf. This means you can effectively assign a task to Google, with a summary and action points available after a few minutes. Google’s example is to find tickets to a baseball game in a specific location, and the results spit out several different options at various ticket-selling platforms.

AI Mode will also be able to create graphics on the fly for “complex datasets” to help visualize data. This will leverage data available in Search, but it will only work for sports and finance topics for the time being.

Finally, and perhaps most powerfully of all, AI Mode is going to be able to integrate with your personal context. This includes suggestions based on past searches, but also connections with other Google apps. AI Mode will first be able to integrate with Gmail, with one example of how this might be useful being the ability to find events in an area near where you are staying based on flight and hotel confirmation emails.

AI Mode starts rolling out now to users in the US, but it’s unclear when it will be available to the rest of the globe. Google also notes that while AI Mode starts rolling out to everyone now, the new features – such as Gmail and “Live” support – won’t arrive for “weeks” at least, and even then, they’ll only be available for those signed up for Labs.

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