Google AI Mode Unleashed: Inside the New AI Search Revolution
Google unveiled AI Mode as an experiment in March 2025 and began rolling it out to all U.S. English-speaking users by May 2025 during Google I/O. AI Mode runs on Google’s Gemini AI family, initially using Gemini 2.0 before being upgraded to Gemini 2.5 at I/O 2025. The feature uses a query fan-out technique that breaks complex questions into sub-queries, searches in parallel, and synthesizes a cited answer. AI Mode appears as a dedicated ‘AI Mode’ tab in Google Search and provides AI-generated answers with links and citations. Unlike AI Overviews, AI Mode delivers a full-page narrative answer rather than
