Google is updating AI Mode on desktop this week with the power to course of photographs, so you’ll be able to ask it detailed questions concerning the footage such as you already can on cellular. Within the coming weeks, the corporate is additionally including assist for PDF uploads on desktop, which might enable you digest prolonged course or work supplies. You possibly can 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 data accessible on the internet. Google says AI Mode’s responses may even embody hyperlinks to its references which you could go to so as to dig deeper. AI Mode will assist further file sorts for add, together with ones straight out of your Google Drive, within the coming months as properly.

As well as to PDF add assist, Google is additionally rolling out a brand new Canvas characteristic which you could entry when you’re enrolled within the AI Mode Labs experiment within the US. You should utilize Canvas to consolidate all related details about a particular matter or for a particular objective in a facet panel that updates as you ask AI Mode extra follow-up questions. When you’re touring, for example, you’ll be able to ask AI Mode to make you an itinerary and click on the Create Canvas button. You may give you the chance to preserve refining the itinerary with extra questions, and you’ll be able to at all times depart it alone for some time and come again to it later.

AI Mode’s Search Stay is additionally getting video enter on cellular this week, a characteristic Google introduced at I/O 2025, after voice enter arrived in June. To give you the chance to entry video enter, you will have to open Lens within the Google app and faucet the Stay icon earlier than asking questions on what the digital camera sees. When Google revealed the characteristic throughout its annual builders’ occasion, it stated you could possibly level the digital camera at a math downside, for instance, and ask Search to enable you resolve it or to clarify an idea you are having hassle understanding.

Lastly, with Lens in Chrome, you will give you the chance to ask AI Mode what’s in your desktop display screen. The corporate will roll out an “Ask Google about this web page” dropdown possibility within the handle bar “quickly.” Whenever you click on on it, AI Mode will create an outline with key data on what’s being proven in your display screen on the facet panel, whether or not it is a internet web page or a PDF. That facet panel may even comprise a brand new “Dive Deeper” button that provides you a approach to ask AI Mode particular questions on you’ve got chosen in your display screen with Lens on desktop.

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

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