Google AI Mode Gets Agents That Can Help You Find Restaurants, Make Reservations

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Google is addingAgentic capabilitiestoAI Modein search that will help you find restaurants and make reservations.

To get started, add all the details—party size, date, time, location, preferred cuisine, etc.—in the text prompt. After taking all of these into consideration, AI Mode will present you with a curated list of restaurants and their available reservation slots.

Each restaurant on the list will have a short AI-generated summary indicating what it is known for or what visitors often recommend. Once you select a slot below the summary, you will be redirected to the reservation page, where you will manually complete the booking.

To make this agentic feature work, AI Mode relies onProject Marinerand booking platforms like OpenTable, Resy, Tock, Ticketmaster, StubHub, SeatGeek, Booksy, and more, Googlesays.

The feature is currently limited to subscribers of the $250-per-monthGoogle AI Ultraplan in the US who sign up for theAgentic capabilities in AI Modeexperiment in Labs.

Google experimented with something similar years ago via Duplex, an AI that could place calls on your behalf to book appointments. A Google I/O 2019 demo was impressive, but the technology itselfprompted concernabout misuse, and itnever really gained momentum.

Personalized AI Mode Responses

If you don't have $250 to spare, Google is promising AI Mode results tailored to your preferences and interests. When you search for food or dining suggestions, it will sift through your previous chats, check places you have browsed via Search or Maps, and deliver relevant options.

To try it out, you need to sign up forAI Mode experiments in Labs. If you are against the idea of having AI Mode respond based on your searches, you can skip this update byTurning off search personalizationfor your Google account

Google is also making AI Mode's responses easy to share. You can now find a share icon below each curated response. It generates a public link that allows your contacts to jump into "right where you left off, ask follow-up questions and continue exploring on their own," Google says.

After initial tests, AI Mode was launchedavailableto all users in the US, UK, and India earlier this year. Upon receiving positive responses from them, Google says it's now expanding the feature to180new countries and regions.