Google has announced that it’s bringing its powerful AI Overviews to even more smartphone and web users, courtesy of Gemini 2.0.
Google rolled out its Gemini 2.0 AI model about a month ago now, promising “advances in multimodality” such as “native image and audio output”.
Now the improvements brought about by Gemini 2.0 have started contributing to even better Google Search results for more people.
AI Overviews get supercharged
In a recent blog post , Google announced that it had launched Gemini 2.0 for AI Overviews in the US.
Google says that you can expect faster and higher quality responses with more difficult questions involving coding, advanced mathematics and multimodal queries.
Crucially, you’ll find that Google provides its snappy AI Overviews more often for these types of queries.
Google says that these enhancements are going to be applied to even more tricky question types in future.
It’s not just the depth of Google’s AI Overviews that’s improving, but also the breadth. You’ll no longer be required to sign in to obtain them.
Google Search goes deeper with AI Mode
This mode takes AI Overview and applies more advanced reasoning, thinking and multimodal capabilities, generating a fully formulated AI response.
“AI Mode is particularly helpful for questions that need further exploration, comparisons and reasoning,” explains Google. You should find queries that formerly required multiple searches can now yield all the resources you need in one pass.
We’re talking links to further reading on the web, but also real time sources like the Knowledge Graph and shopping data, all provided in a single AI-generated response.
When you ask a query in AI Mode, Google’s AI issues multiple related searches in the background covering various subtopics, then presents all the data to you in one digestible presentation.
Don’t lean on Google’s AI Mode too hard
The whole point of AI Mode seems to be to provide a completely AI-generated response wherever possible, though Google notes that in instances where its model isn’t confident of its helpfulness or quality, it’ll simply supply a familiar list of web search results.
The next phase of testing, Google says, will be to address the possibility of subjective opinion entering into the formulation.
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Author: Jon Mundy, Contributor, Tech Advisor
Jon is a freelance journalist who got his start covering mobile games at the dawn of the App Store. He has since covered everything from smart home tech and laptops to food and culture, but always seems to return to his fascination with smartphones.
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