Google has brought AI Mode to India. It’s a new way to search—simple, sharp, and strong. First tested in America, then shown at Google I/O 2025, it now lands in India as a trial, through Labs, in English.
What is AI Mode?
Google AI Mode is the kind of tool a person uses when they want answers, not fragments. It runs on Gemini 2.5, a machine made to think fast and dig deep. With a trick they call query fan-out, it tackles hard questions. The kind that twist and turn. The kind you don’t ask in pieces, but all at once.
You ask it something layered, something real. Not just “best hikes,” but “best hikes near Shimla for a weekend in July with light gear.” It answers with a full summary, clean and clear, and links if you want to go deeper. Early folks who tried it asked longer questions—two, three times longer than before. They used it to plan, to compare, to learn how to do things step by step.
What AI Mode Brings to India
You can speak, write, or show it a picture. That’s how you ask now. Text, voice, or image—it listens all the same. It thinks hard. It pulls apart your question, finds the pieces, and gives you an answer that makes sense. Clear. Simple. Strong. Ask again, and it remembers. It keeps the thread. You don’t need to start over.
You talk to it like a man talks when he wants to know more. You can show it a thing—leaf, shoe, receipt, engine part. It sees it. It knows what it is. That’s Lens, working behind the curtain. You take a photo or upload it, and the machine tells you what you’re looking at.
How to Start Using Google Search AI Mode
- Open the Google app on your phone. Android or iPhone—either works.
- Look for the Labs icon. Tap it. If you’re one of the lucky ones, it’ll be there.
- Turn on AI Mode. That’s all.
- Ask your question. Say it, write it, or show it.
- Read what it tells you. It gives you a full picture and links, in case you want more.
- Ask again. Go deeper. It won’t lose track.
Right now, it speaks English. That’s how it begins. It’s a test. A start. A way for Google to learn from the people who use it. It won’t always be perfect. Nothing good is, at first. But it’s a hard step forward. A true step. Toward something new.
Final Words
Google’s so-called AI Mode has touched down in India, running on Gemini 2.5 and equipped with enough processing power to render your mobile phone a sort of mechanical sage. Whether the task be plotting a route to Shimla or discerning the nature of some long-forgotten implement borrowed by a neighbour, the promise is of a machine that thinks and answers helpfully. Yet it is not in the laboratories of California that its merit will be proven, but in the dense thicket of Indian life online.
It is one thing to identify a flower or compose a letter; quite another to face the daily volley of requests: “Which biryani is best in Hyderabad for under two hundred rupees, close by, with parking, and air-conditioning?” As it stands, the system is restricted to English—a diplomatic way of admitting that the engineers have yet to train their invention in the chaotic splendour of Indian tongues. But no great undertaking is ever completed in haste; to teach a machine to think as an Indian does may take longer than teaching it to think at all. So the new age of search has entered the Indian market. Whether it is equal to the task, however, remains a question.
