Subvolts take Google Search is becoming an AI agent, moving beyond keywords to complex, actionable queries. Jul 23, 2025 - Developers
- Learn about model fine-tuning for product experience and real-time tool use in Search.
- Business
- Understand how Google is evolving Search into a proactive AI assistant for its vast user base.
- Everyday users
- Discover how Search is becoming more conversational, personal, and capable of taking action on your behalf.
This episode features a key Google product leader discussing the future of Search, a core product for billions, with significant AI integration.
Building a frontier AI search experience
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Google Search VP Robby Stein discusses Search's evolution into a frontier AI product with Logan Kilpatrick. They cover the shift to conversational queries, agentic capabilities, and the vision to let users 'ask anything.' The conversation highlights AI Overviews, AI Mode, Deep Search, and multimodal interaction, aiming to serve billions.
Google Search is changing from a simple lookup tool to a smart assistant. It can now understand complex questions, act on your behalf, and use different types of information like images and voice to help you.
This episode offers insight into Google's strategy for integrating advanced AI into its core Search product. It's for anyone interested in how AI is changing information access, from consumers to product managers. The discussion on agentic capabilities and multimodal interaction directly reflects current frontier lab efforts in creating more proactive and versatile AI assistants.
- HostLogan Kilpatrick
- GuestRobby SteinVP of Product, Google Search
- Guest: Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search
- Title: Building a frontier AI search experience
- Show: Google AI: Release Notes
- Length: 43 minutes
- Search reaches: 1.5 Billion Users
Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, joins host Logan Kilpatrick to explore how Search is evolving into a frontier AI product. Their conversation covers the shift from simple keywords to complex, conversational queries, the rise of agentic capabilities that can take action on your behalf, and the vision to help billions of users truly "ask anything." Learn more about the technology behind AI Overviews, AI Mode, Deep Search, and the future of multimodal interaction.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zUB5A_ezIOU
Chapters
01:07 Search as a Frontier AI Product
02:38 Reaching 1.5 Billion Users
03:37 What Is AI Mode?
04:17 Understanding Query Fan-Out
05:18 Balancing Latency and performance with Gemini 2.5 Pro
06:51 How Deep Search works
09:08 Fine-tuning models for product experience
11:24 Shifting user behaviors
14:07 The rise of visual search
16:52 Speech and conversational AI in Search
18:36 Comparing Gemini and Search
20:04 Real-time tool use in Search
22:52 Evolving the Search interface
26:03 Making Search more personal
29:15 The agentic future of Search
31:15 Agents beyond booking tickets
37:11 On-the-fly software creation
38:06 Google DeepMind and Search collaboration
40:08 What's next for Search
- agentic capabilities
- Robby Stein
- AI features that can perform actions for you
- multimodal interaction
- Robby Stein
- Using different types of information like text, images, and voice together
- Query Fan-Out
- Logan Kilpatrick
- When a single complex search query generates multiple sub-queries for the AI to process
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42 minGemini co-leads on project origins and what's next
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22 minGemini 3 and Gen UI in Google Search
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Questions people ask
- What is AI Mode in Google Search?
- AI Mode is a new way to interact with Google Search that leverages AI to provide more comprehensive and conversational answers.
- How does Deep Search work?
- Deep Search is a technology that allows Google Search to understand more complex and nuanced queries, going beyond simple keyword matching.
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