Google is bringing picture and PDF uploads to AI Mode

Google is updating AI Mode on desktop this week with the power to course of photographs, so you may ask it detailed questions in regards to the photos such as you already can on cellular. Within the coming weeks, the corporate can be including assist for PDF uploads on desktop, which might aid you digest prolonged course or work supplies. You’ll be able to ask AI Mode to summarize the paperwork for you and ask follow-up questions that it’s going to then reply by cross-referencing the supplies you uploaded with info out there on the internet. Google says AI Mode’s responses can even embody hyperlinks to its references which you could go to with the intention to dig deeper. AI Mode will assist extra file varieties for add, together with ones straight out of your Google Drive, within the coming months as effectively.

Along with PDF add assist, Google can be rolling out a brand new Canvas function which you could entry when you’re enrolled within the AI Mode Labs experiment within the US. You need to use Canvas to consolidate all related details about a particular subject or for a particular objective in a facet panel that updates as you ask AI Mode extra follow-up questions. For those who’re touring, as an example, you may ask AI Mode to make you an itinerary and click on the Create Canvas button. You can hold refining the itinerary with extra questions, and you may at all times go away it alone for some time and are available again to it later.

AI Mode’s Search Live can be getting video enter on cellular this week, a function Google announced at I/O 2025, after voice enter arrived in June. To have the ability to entry video enter, you will need to open Lens within the Google app and faucet the Dwell icon earlier than asking questions on what the digicam sees. When Google revealed the function throughout its annual builders’ occasion, it stated you possibly can level the digicam at a math drawback, for instance, and ask Search that can assist you clear up it or to clarify an idea you are having hassle understanding.

Lastly, with Lens in Chrome, you can ask AI Mode what’s in your desktop display. The corporate will roll out an “Ask Google about this web page” dropdown choice within the deal with bar “quickly.” While you click on on it, AI Mode will create an outline with key info on what’s being proven in your display on the facet panel, whether or not it is a internet web page or a PDF. That facet panel can even comprise a brand new “Dive Deeper” button that offers you a technique to ask AI Mode particular questions on you have chosen in your display with Lens on desktop.

Up to date August 1, 2025 5:45AM ET: This story has been up to date so as to add info on “Dive Deeper.”

Replace, July 29 2025, 12:29PM ET: This story has been up to date, as Google shared after the article was revealed that the picture and PDF add options can be out there wherever AI Mode is accessible, not simply within the US. Meaning these uploads will come to the US, India and the UK.