Google offers ‘AI mode’ in ‘total reimagining of search’

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Google plans to overhole its search engine to add such features that allows it to work the same with an AI chatboat, as the company ran to compete with rivals like OpenAI.

From Tuesday, all US users will be able to activate “AI Mode” Google Search and Chrome Browser that will provide a conversation, question -and -answer experience, and is similar to the Openai ChatzPT instead of a traditional list of links.

Google’s main alphabetic chief executive beautiful Pichai described this step during the annual I/and developer conference in Mountain View this week as “complete reconstruction of search”.

The release represents the latest effort to the generator AI injection in Google’s dominant search engine, even in investors, such as new products will make their cash cows.

Following the new “AI Mode” Composition “AI Overview” in I/O last year. Short, AI-exposed answers to general issues have become popular with users, but the click rates in ads have reduced the click rate that the company depends for most of its income.

Pichai was criticized for the slow pace of AI publication after Google had developed the research behind AI Boom before Google. It has allowed start-ups like OpenAIs and anthropologists to turn into a multi-billion dollar company that has begun to challenge Google in online questions.

In response to, Google has been forced Accelerated Its launch schedule and its larger language model improved rapidly in Jemini. It claims that the new 2.5 version has surpassed OpenAEE’s Chatzept and Anthropic Claud to many benchmark exams, especially in coding.

Pichai said that Google still enjoys a larger distribution facility than rivals with its 8.5bn daily search. “Search is bringing AI to people more than any product in the world,” he said.

Executives were strictly pressured on how they plan to integrate ads on new AI search, browser and app-based agent offers. Google has made 50 billion dollars to earn advertising First quarterOverall more than half of the total $ 90bn for the alphabet.

As Pivot in AI, Google is moving forward from its ad-supported free model. Google’s standard “AI Pro” subscription plans cost $ 25 a month.

For those who want primary access to the maximum advanced features, a new “Ultra” package will pay $ 250 a month, the top $ 200 is more expensive than a month.

Google also joined the crowd of companies Offers AI agentsIts prototype brings a project mariner to roll out customers in the summer. Users may allow agents to take control of their browser and other software, such as booking trips, shopping and complex research reports such as compiling.

Google users can access Gemini on their historical tihasic data to provide more “personal contexts” to verbs and reactions. However experts have raised Concern Privacy over privacy as the AI ​​agencies began to create long memories in their models.

“Our recent updates in Jemini are important steps to unlock our public AI assistant,” said Sir Demis Hassabis, head of the AI ​​research arm Deepmind. “It is cute and understand the context you are in and can plan on your behalf across any device and take action. This is our ultimate goal” “

Many of the “agents” features announced on Tuesday are already on the offer of smaller rivals, ethnographic and openly published their own versions of computers in October and January respectively. However, these products remain worrying and often fight the primary tasks. If Google is able to provide a more reliable experience using its huge resources and user data trove, one can achieve an edge.

Choice MicrosoftWhich is organizing its own developers’ conferences this week in Seattle, Google says it will accept an ethnographic model context protocol (MCP), which is a structure that allows AI agents to communicate with each other in a standard format needed to navigate multiple applications and websites.

The Google Project Astra has also awarded an upgrade version, a “multimodal” agent that can react and work on real-time voice quarry and commands using a mobile phone camera or smart glasses to visit the world. A video demonstration has shown that a person wants advice on how to fix a bike, how he works when ordering parts from the local store.

Google has finalized Esta directly in search of Esta, but it is not only using the Android mobile operating system, Apple will allow access to iOS software ruled devices.