Google is launching a significant update to its Search AI Mode, bringing better restaurant reservations to the US and expanding the feature globally in a separate release. The upgrades, which were revealed on August 21, represent the largest advancement for Google’s AI-powered search assistant to yet.
Google is expanding by launching AI Mode in 180 new English-speaking nations. The feature was limited to the US, India, and the UK up until this point. Although the extension is currently limited to English, it is a significant step in expanding the accessibility of Google’s conversational search tools.
Users may already utilize AI Mode to obtain restaurant reservations, and in the future, they will be able to find event tickets and local service appointments, among other new agentic services. Several criteria, including group size, date, time, place, and desired cuisine, can be used by users to make dinner reservations. After that, AI Mode will look through several reservation systems to locate restaurants that match the query in real time. After then, a well chosen selection of possibilities is displayed.
Google has made hints about the potential of agentic capabilities beyond food. Ticketmaster, StubHub, and other partnerships are already underway, opening the door for AI-powered appointment and event scheduling, among other things.
The “Agentic capabilities in AI Mode” experiment in Labs, Google’s experimental arm, is introducing this new feature to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the United States. (Ultra is Google’s highest-end plan, at $249.99 per month.)