Google Expands AI Mode to Five New Languages, Bringing AI-Powered Search to Millions More
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – november 1, 2025 – Google is substantially expanding the reach of its AI Mode, adding support for Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, adn Brazilian Portuguese. The update, announced today, breaks the feature’s six-month limitation to English and brings AI-powered search capabilities to users in a wider range of global markets.
Launched initially as an experiment for Google One AI Premium subscribers in March, AI Mode represents Google’s direct response to emerging AI search platforms like Perplexity and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search. The feature leverages a customized version of Gemini 2.5, offering multimodal and reasoning capabilities to provide more extensive answers to complex queries.
The expansion follows a rollout to 180 new markets in English last month, after initial availability in the U.S., U.K., and India. “With this expansion, more people can now use AI Mode to ask complex questions in their preferred language, while exploring the web more deeply,” stated Hema Budaraju, VP of Product Management at Google Search, in a blog post.
Google has also been introducing agentic features within AI Mode, beginning with restaurant reservation finding in August, with plans to add support for local service appointments and event ticket bookings. These advanced capabilities are currently limited to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. and are accessible through the “Agentic capabilities in AI Mode” experiment in Labs, costing $249.99 per month.
Currently accessible via a dedicated tab on search results pages and a button in the search bar, Google appears to be moving towards making AI Mode the default search experience “soon,” according to Logan Kilpatrick, group product manager at Google DeepMind.
The rollout of Google’s AI features, including AI Mode and AI Overviews, has faced scrutiny regarding potential impacts on search clicks, though Google has denied claims that these features are negatively affecting website traffic.