This article was first published on 2 May 2025.
25 August 2025 update: AI Mode in Google Search is now available in Singapore. We’ve kept the original article below the update.
Using Google Search’s AI Mode to find more ways to spend your SG60 Vouchers.
25 August 2025 update: AI Mode in Google Search is now available in Singapore, and in English.
According to Google, AI Mode uses custom version of Gemini 2.5, allowing searchers to ask longer, more complex questions instead of conducting multiple searches.
In the example above, Google showed how it combined a specific trait with spending S60 vouchers to properly suggest ideas for the user. The implied context (limiting the activities to Singapore, and requires physical activity) are all accounted for, even if the search query did not specify these needs.
Like the U.S. experimental debut below, AI Mode in Singapore uses query fan-out techniques behind the scenes to break a topic down into subtopics. This allows deep-diving of the search query, and use of real-world and real-time information (like shopping data and Knowledge Graph) for anything that’s product-related.
Besides the standard browser mode, AI Mode is also available in the iOS and Android versions of the Google App.
It also works with voice input (microphone icon) and with Google Lens. You can also learn more about AI Mode at its official landing page here.
As of 2 May 2025:
Google is moving forward with AI Mode by making it even more accessible in more ways than one.
The unique search tool with multimodal AI support is no longer limited to select users. In Google’s announcement here, AI Mode is now available to all Google Labs users in the U.S., and no longer requires approval after signing up on a waitlist.
More exciting are the new features added to AI Mode based on previous users’ feedback. Prior to its update, AI Mode had already used both AI smarts and basic search logic to serve relevant results to its users.
In the “coming weeks”, AI Mode will also add visuals to the results, which include assets like place cards, product cards, ratings, reviews, real-time prices, and all sorts of little tidbits you’d get from normal Search. An example Google gave is serving a list of local stores around you with additional insights like live crowds, phone numbers, and directions when searching for furniture stores.
Google said this was possible because it combined its existing database of local businesses with its Shopping Graph tool, which updates about two billion product listings per hour.
AI Mode is also now adding “past searches” in its left panel, making it easier for users doing deep research into topics to continue searching where they left off.
What is AI Mode?
In short, AI Mode is a version of Google Search that uses prompt-based AI models to deliver answers. Besides simply being a Gemini/ChatGPT/DeepSeek that cites its sources, AI Mode also helps to connect the dots and serve up actionable information. Search can also be multimodal, in that it’s not strictly text queries or text answers.
It was previously an experimental tool inside Google Labs, and users needed to join a waitlist before they were given access to the service.
Besides making it open to all U.S.-based Google Labs users., AI Mode will also be available in regular Google Search to a “small percentage of people”.
Source: Google (blog)
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