Google has announced the expansion of its AI Mode, the AI-powered Search experience, to include support for five new languages: Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese. This marks a significant step in broadening access to the feature after it was initially limited to English for over six months.
The announcement, made on Monday, follows last month’s rollout of AI Mode in English to 180 new markets. AI Mode originally debuted in the U.S. before expanding to the U.K. and India.
Hema Budaraju, VP of Product Management at Google Search, stated that this expansion allows more individuals to “ask complex questions in their preferred language, while exploring the web more deeply.”
AI Mode, first introduced as an experiment for Google One AI Premium subscribers in March, is designed to compete with AI search platforms like Perplexity and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search. It leverages a customized version of Gemini 2.5, incorporating multimodal and reasoning capabilities.
In August, Google added agentic features to AI Mode, enabling it to find restaurant reservations, with plans to extend support to local service appointments and event ticket bookings. These agentic updates are currently exclusive to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. and can be accessed through the “Agentic capabilities in AI Mode” experiment in Labs. The Ultra tier is priced at $249.99 per month.
AI Mode can be accessed through a dedicated tab on the search results page and a button in the search bar. Google DeepMind’s product manager, Logan Kilpatrick, indicated that the company is working toward making the AI-led search experience the default “soon.”
Recent AI updates from Google, including AI Mode and AI Overviews, have faced criticism regarding their potential impact on search clicks. However, Google refuted claims last month that its AI search features are negatively impacting website traffic.
