- Google Search now uses Gemini 3 to generate answers for AI Overviews
- The upgrade is aimed at improving answers to more complex questions
- The update also enables users to move straight from AI Overviews to a conversation in AI Mode
Google Search has upgraded its AI Overview answers with its Gemini 3 AI model to better respond to complex queries in a single snapshot. The update also allows you to go from an AI Overview answer directly into a conversation in Google Search’s AI Mode on mobile without having to switch tabs or start over.
AI Overviews, those little summaries that sit above traditional search results, are designed to condense long, messy answers to complicated questions without requiring clicking on links. Making Gemini 3 the default model for AI Overviews on mobile globally means the responses will be smarter, longer, and better structured, according to Google.
Improved as those answers are, they may not be everything you want. That’s where the connection between the static AI Overviews and the interactive AI Mode for Google Search comes in. The upgrade makes it easier to leap from that snapshot into a full conversational back‑and‑forth with AI Mode.
Previously, if you wanted to turn your overview into a full conversation, you would need to click on the AI Mode tab and start the search anew. Now, you can stay within the flow of your search results and keep going deeper with minimal friction. In early tests, Google found that people naturally wanted to have these conversational extensions of search, rather than hitting a wall after the first AI‑generated answer.
If the overview gives you a starting point, the conversation lets you unpack every detail without having to start a new search. You can then refine your question, ask about exceptions, or even bring in tables and other visuals within the same thread.
Conversational transitions
Gemini 3 makes both the quick snapshot and the deeper conversation more useful. Google hopes that if your exploration of a topic doesn’t end after the first answer, you’ll be able to satisfy your curiosity without leaving its sandbox.
For most people, that means the digestible summary at the top can immediately become a deeper, more nuanced conversation without switching tabs, rewriting your question, or losing context. It’s search that remembers what you were asking and anticipates follow‑ups.
Context matters here. Search has always been about quick answers for simple things like sports scores or weather, but life’s big questions are often complex and nuanced. Knowing that “what to consider before buying a house” isn’t something you solve with a snippet makes Google’s conversational layer feel timely. The ability to ask follow‑ups and keep context means fewer redundant queries and less re‑framing for subtler angles on your problem.
Of course, not every question will be better served by conversation. Google’s effort to use the right model where appropriate, with the lighter models for quick answers, and Gemini 3 for deeper queries, reflects this balancing act. And there’s a question of accuracy. No matter how well the AI models perform, hallucinations crop up, and well-crafted answers and dialogue aren’t very useful if they are outright wrong.
But a search experience that feels less like fishing for answers and more like having your fish dinner prepared per your conversation with the chef is undeniably going to appeal to those in a hurry, even if the fish is occasionally made of rubber.
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