Google expands AI Mode to 180+ countries and adds agentic restaurant booking

Google has expanded its AI Mode in Search to more than 180 countries (English only for now). The update introduces agentic features that can perform tasks on your behalf — most notably, the ability to find and book restaurant reservations using natural language.

How it works: AI Mode taps Google’s browsing agent (Project Mariner), Knowledge Graph, Google Maps and direct partners to search the web, surface options, and present available reservation slots in a list with links to book. Google has partnered with reservation platforms like OpenTable, Resy and Tock to streamline bookings. Google plans to add local service appointments and event ticketing soon, with Ticketmaster and StubHub among named partners.

Availability: These agentic features are currently limited to subscribers of Google AI Ultra in the U.S. and accessed via Google Labs. AI Mode can, if you opt in, remember past conversations and searches to personalize results. A new Share conversation option lets you invite others into an AI thread so they can ask follow-ups; the original sender can remove shared links anytime.

Official source: Google Blog — AI Mode in Search

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