Google is expanding its AI-powered Search experience, AI Mode, to five additional languages after more than six months of being available exclusively in English. The company announced that AI Mode will now support Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese, significantly widening its reach and making the tool accessible to millions of new users worldwide.
The update follows Google’s rollout of AI Mode to 180 new markets last month in English, after an initial U.S. launch and subsequent expansion to the U.K. and India. “With this expansion, more people can now use AI Mode to ask complex questions in their preferred language, while exploring the web more deeply,” said Hema Budaraju, VP of Product Management at Google Search, in a blog post.
AI Mode first debuted in March as an experimental feature for Google One AI Premium subscribers and represents Google’s response to AI-driven search platforms like Perplexity and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search. The tool runs on a customized version of Gemini 2.5, which brings multimodal understanding and advanced reasoning capabilities to search.
In August, Google enhanced AI Mode with agentic features, allowing users to book restaurant reservations directly through search. Additional capabilities, such as booking local services and purchasing event tickets, are planned for future updates. These features remain limited to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S., available under the “Agentic capabilities in AI Mode” experiment in Labs. The Ultra tier is priced at $249.99 per month.
Currently, AI Mode is accessible via a dedicated tab on the search results page as well as through a button in the search bar. Google has hinted at its intention to make this AI-driven experience the default search interface soon. Logan Kilpatrick, a group product manager at Google DeepMind, suggested as much in a recent post on X while replying to user feedback.
Despite the excitement around AI Mode, Google’s AI search features have drawn criticism for allegedly reducing traffic to websites. The company, however, has denied these claims, stating last month that AI-powered tools like AI Mode and AI Overviews are not “killing” clicks but helping users find relevant information faster.
