Google Search's AI mode goes multimodal

Google has dominated the search engine market for decades. However, the rise of generative AI has presented a new form of competition -- AI search engines. With its AI Mode, Google provides users with exactly that: an AI chatbot that understands and outputs conversational search queries. As you might have expected, it looks a lot less like a traditional Google search and a lot more like ChatGPT Search. Google's AI Mode was met with such high interest that the feature went from being exclusive to Google One AI Premium users who pay 20 monthly to any Google account user via Google Labs.