Google has expanded its AI Mode, an AI-powered search experience, to include support for five new languages: Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese, marking a significant step in broadening access to the feature.
The announcement, made on Monday, follows last month’s rollout of AI Mode in English to 180 new markets. Initially, AI Mode was limited to English for over six months before it was expanded to new markets. It originally debuted in the U.S. before expanding to the U.K. and India.
Hema Budaraju, VP of Product Management at Google Search, stated that this expansion allows more individuals to “ask complex questions in their preferred language, while exploring the web more deeply.” The expansion is expected to enhance the user experience by providing more personalized and informative search results.
AI Mode, first introduced as an experiment for Google One AI Premium subscribers in March, is designed to compete with AI search platforms like Perplexity and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search. It leverages a customized version of Gemini 2.5, incorporating multimodal and reasoning capabilities to provide more accurate and comprehensive search results.
In August, Google added agentic features to AI Mode, enabling it to find restaurant reservations, with plans to extend support to local service appointments and event ticket bookings. These agentic updates are currently exclusive to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. and can be accessed through the “Agentic capabilities in AI Mode” experiment in Labs. The Ultra tier is priced at $249.99 per month.
AI Mode can be accessed through a dedicated tab on the search results page and a button in the search bar. Google DeepMind’s product manager, Logan Kilpatrick, indicated that the company is working toward making the AI-led search experience the default “soon.” This move is expected to further enhance the user experience and provide more streamlined search results.
Recent AI updates from Google, including AI Mode and AI Overviews, have faced criticism regarding their potential impact on search clicks. However, Google refuted claims last month that its AI search features are negatively impacting website traffic, ensuring that the expansion of AI Mode will not harm the online ecosystem.
