- Google has upgraded its AI mode for research
- AI mode can now analyze PDF and images and use search live to analyze video content
- AI mode has also added the canvas function
Google has improved its AI mode in research with a multitude of new features that are clearly aimed at encouraging people attempted by IA tools elsewhere to stay.
AI mode is already different from traditional research in that it sets up a more complete answer to your request by sending several related questions according to your initial prompt. You can then request follow -up and adjust the push of your search.
With new updates, AI mode is more a multiple facets tool to learn and organize information. The most immediately perceptible upgrade is that you can now download PDFs and IA mode images on your desktop and ask them nuanced questions about them.
On mobile, Google already allows you to use AI mode to ask questions about photos or screenshots. But making it available for desktop users means that you can download whole slide decks from a class or slide on a pdf of a book and toast the AI on the content as it is an unpaid tutor. And the model does not only respond according to your file; It will transform the web to give answers that correspond to the context of your download and are supported by sources and links.
Canvas planning
If you cannot do all your deep dives in a single search, the new Canvas feature offers AI mode users a longer -term option to organize information. Canvas appears as a side panel in AI mode which allows you to create and modify projects on several sessions. There is no different from the canvas functionality for chatgpt, or even the Gemini canvas tool on which it is clearly based. Think about it as a cross between a collaborative document and a study planner.
You can start with a prompt on a long -term project to learn something, then press the Create a canvas button and see the part in a project together, organize resources and answer monitoring questions when you change or develop your goals. In addition, you can continue to go back even if you close the tab. Continuity is crucial if you want to do more than a simple traditional Google search that ends when you close the window.
Google also provides that Canvas supports its own file downloads, so it will absorb some of the capabilities of the AI general tool box. In fact, it seems that AI mode will possibly look like Notebooklm, however, for the moment, not with podcasts built by AI.
Search live
The third most futuristic upgrade in AI mode is live research. If the canvas concerns a long -term reflection, research live is intended for real -time responses.
Look for Live Incorpore Google Lens with the ASTRA AI project of Google to provide answers depending on the video you show it. Using live search, you can point the camera of your phone to any problem of a mathematical equation on a page to a device with bad driving and start asking IA questions while you turn. The flow of cameras becomes the context of AI answers because it uses what you see and say to respond with solutions, and the links as if you were a friend with all the answers.
This type of live help could rethink people what they expect from AI tools in terms of precision and immediacy. Instead of a blank search box, she looks at something, the conversation on this subject and the provision of useful responses immediately.
This trend continues with the upcoming Google Lens upgrades in Chrome. Google changes the address bar so that when you click on it, you offer the possibility of “ask Google this page” and obtain answers on any website, PDF, slide or other content is open in Chrome. You can even get IA previews from any section you highlight. You can then use the IA mode to go further, mainly using the web page as a starting point for a more in -depth project.
All these changes may not look like revolutions overnight, but they could be the basis of a new way of thinking about research. And while IA chatbots encroach on what was formerly the undisputed leadership of Google in the search for online things, the company undoubtedly seeks competitive responses and, in the process, the supply of upgrades of IA research as these upgrades.
