Bengali, Malay, Persian? Check, check, check. Google has rolled out its AI mode for search to 40 more countries and 35 more languages, putting it within reach of millions more worldwide.
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The rollout continues the rapid expansion of AI mode, which launched to US consumers on June 27 and is now offered in more than 200 countries and territories.
Adding dozens of new languages shows how much more advanced the company’s Gemini AI models have become, said Hema Budaraju, vice president of Google Search product management, in a blog post Tuesday.
Gemini is “allowing people to ask anything on their mind in the way that’s most natural to them, thanks to our natural language understanding and multimodal capabilities,” Budaraju wrote. “Now, more people can ask anything in their preferred language.”
Budaraju said that AI mode can “truly grasp the subtleties of local languages” and that it will soon be added to more languages and regions.
What is AI mode?
AI Mode allows users to answer questions ranging from simple (“When is daylight savings?”) to complex (“What was the Great Depression?”). You can access it via a button on the right side of the search bar on the Google home page or on the left side of the menu toward the top of other Google pages. The direct URL is here.
Through AI Mode, you can use text, photos and voice in queries. You can upload a scenic image into AI Mode search and ask where the photo was taken. You can also receive images as your answers in AI Mode, for example, asking the chatbot to “show me photos of the most scenic places in Seattle.”
Google has also enhanced shopping searches in AI Mode, so users can ask, ” Where can I buy comfy winter sweaters?” and get a list of retailers.
AI Mode is powered by Gemini, Google’s family of AI models and also the name of its chatbot. It is designed to synthesize the answers to user search questions in a conversational manner. Shortly after its launch in early summer, CNET broke it all down right here.
