Google has broadened the reach of AI Mode—its search experience powered by artificial intelligence—to five additional languages, giving more people worldwide access after over half a year of English exclusivity.
On Monday, Google revealed that AI Mode will now be available in Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese. This update comes after last month’s expansion of the AI-driven feature to 180 more English-speaking regions, following its original debut in the U.S. and subsequent launches in the U.K. and India.
“With this rollout, a larger audience can now use AI Mode to pose complex queries in their native languages and explore the web in greater depth,” wrote Hema Budaraju, Google Search’s VP of Product Management, in a blog update.
AI Mode was initially introduced as a trial for Google One AI Premium members in March, serving as Google’s competitor to AI search tools like Perplexity and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search. The tool operates on a specially tailored Gemini 2.5, offering advanced reasoning and multimodal support.
This August, Google added agentic functions to AI Mode, enabling it to make restaurant reservations, with features for booking local services and event tickets expected in the future. At present, these new capabilities are only accessible to U.S.-based Google AI Ultra subscribers and can be found within the Labs experiment titled “Agentic capabilities in AI Mode.” The Ultra subscription is priced at $249.99 per month.
Currently, users can find Google’s AI Mode via a unique tab on the search results page or by clicking a button in the search bar. According to a recent response from Logan Kilpatrick, group product manager at Google DeepMind, the company is aiming to make this AI-powered search interface the default option “soon.”
Recent enhancements to Google’s AI offerings, such as AI Mode and AI Overviews, have faced criticism for reducing search click-throughs. Still, Google asserted last month that its AI search features are not responsible for declines in website visits.
