Google AI Mode is now available outside of the US, with Google’s first international expansion of the future of its search service coming to India. Google wrote, “we’re excited to bring AI Mode to India, starting today, as an experiment in Labs in English.”
Some history. As a reminder, AI Mode was introduced in the US, within Search Labs back in March 2025. Than at Google I/O in May, Google announced AI Mode would roll out fully to US searchers without having to opt into it via Labs. It took three weeks, but AI Mode began its US rollout in mid-June.
What Google said. Google wrote:
“We first introduced AI Mode as an experiment in the U.S. earlier this year, and started rolling out to users outside of Labs at Google I/O 2025. It’s already resonating with users who appreciate its speed, quality, and fresh responses. Following this positive feedback, we’re excited to bring AI Mode to India, starting today, as an experiment in Labs in English. This approach allows us to learn what’s most helpful to our users here and improve rapidly with your feedback.”
“This launch is part of our long-term vision to make finding and accessing information even more effortless on Search. With our latest advancements in AI, we’ve seen people turn to Google Search to tackle increasingly complex and nuanced questions. AI Overviews, now used by over 1.5 billion users every month, is a testament to this evolution. In our biggest markets like the U.S. and India, it’s already driving a more than 10% increase in usage for the types of queries where they appear. This means that once people use AI Overviews, they’re coming to do more of these types of queries, and what’s particularly exciting is how this growth increases over time. AI Mode expands what AI Overviews can do with more advanced reasoning, thinking and multimodal capabilities.”
Nick Fox, Google’s VP of Search, added on X, “this is our first international expansion of AI Mode, and we’ll be adding more features over time.”
What is AI Mode. AI Mode is a new tab within Google Search that brings you into a more AI-like interface. Google said AI Mode “is particularly helpful for queries where further exploration, reasoning, or comparisons are needed.” AI Mode lets you explore a topic and get comprehensive AI-based answers without you needing to do those comparisons and analyses yourself. We saw rumors of this news and it is finally officially here, for some of you.
AI Mode uses a “query fan-out” technique that issues multiple related searches concurrently across subtopics and multiple data sources and then brings those results together to provide a response. Google said using this query fan-out method provides searchers with a “more breadth and depth of information than a traditional search on Google.”
AI Mode supports searching with text, voice, and images through its multimodal capabilities. Plus, AI Mode offers the conversational follow-up questions like you’ve seen in AI Overviews and Gemini.
Tracking AI Mode. You won’t be able to easily track AI Mode queries and data in Search Console, despite that data being logged in Search Console. Google lumps it all together with normal search, despite it being a separate tab within Google.com.
Plus, AI Mode in India is just in Search Labs, which Google Search Console does not track at all.
Why we care. AI Mode is touted by Google as the future of Google Search. Google will continue to roll out AI Mode to more and more regions and eventually it will be available to all users, worldwide, outside of Search Labs.
You should be playing with AI Mode to see how your sites and clients are impacted.