- Google has upgraded its AI mode with the advanced Gemini 2.5 Pro
- AI mode has also added deep search which can now run hundreds of background searches
- A new calling tool built in search lets Google Call businesses on your behalf
Google continues to try to get you to use its AI mode when searching online with new and improved AI tools. Conversational Search Tool has made Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model available in AI mode along with the long-shaped report writing tool Deep Search.
Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in the US, which are also part of the AI mode experiment in search laboratories, will now see an opportunity to choose Gemini 2.5 Pro when also asking tough questions.
This is the same heavyweight model behind Google’s most advanced AI tools. They also have the opportunity to use Deep Search, a feature available in the regular Gemini app, which can simultaneously run hundreds of searches and will write a report that collects the information.
However, the more deep changes are in how the search itself develops. Gemini 2.5 Pro doesn’t just pick up answers. It reasons. It explains math in full step. It even writes code and tells you what that code is doing. And when it is paired with deep search, it can essentially perform a research marathon on your behalf.
AI calls in
The new call feature for search is something else entirely. It connects your search for information about a store to a phone call with AI. As Google shows in a demo, you can write “Pet Groomers near me” and ask for information that is not immediately available.
Instead, tap “Get Google Call for you” that will get Google to call local stores, ask for accessibility or prices, and then SMS or E -MAILE The results directly to you. If that sounds like Google Duplex, it’s because Google’s Duplex technology drives it.
Of course, all this comes with a few stars, such as having to pay for a subscription. Free users still get some limited AI call attempts, but the advanced AI mode tools are reserved for paying customers.
Google’s advantage over other AI developers is the large size of its search database, so even when Openai and others try to manufacture similar products, Google may have a lasting edge. There is still a learning curve.
AI that does too much too fast can lead to problems. You don’t want your research assistant to skip credible sources in favor of a Reddit wire with 38 upvotes. And you certainly don’t want your AI calling the wrong person to plan a colonoscopy.
