\n<\/p>\n
Google announced on Wednesday that it\u2019s making it easier to access AI Mode on mobile. Users will now be able to access AI Mode, which allows users to ask complex questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic directly within Search, via a new dedicated shortcut button under the search bar when opening a \u201cNew Tab\u201d page in Chrome. <\/p>\n
The new shortcut for AI Mode in Chrome is launching in the U.S. starting Wednesday and will soon be coming to 160 new countries and other languages, including Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and more.<\/p>\n
By making it easier to access AI Mode on mobile, Google likely hopes that people will use its service rather than navigate to competitors\u2019 tools.<\/p>\n The launch of the new shortcut comes as Google recently expanded AI Mode globally, bringing the feature to\u00a0180 new countries<\/a>. The tech giant also made the feature available in more languages<\/a>, including Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese.<\/p>\n Google first launched\u00a0AI Mode in March<\/a>\u00a0to take on popular services like Perplexity AI and OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT Search. Since then, the tech giant has continuously updated the tool with added functionality. <\/p>\n Yesterday, Google launched new agentic capabilities<\/a> in AI Mode to allow users to get help with booking event tickets and beauty and wellness appointments in AI Mode. Google first introduced\u00a0agentic capabilities to AI Mode<\/a>\u00a0back in August, when it rolled out the ability for people use the feature to find restaurant reservations. <\/p>\n