Wondering what all the fuss is about Gemini, Google's next-gen generative AI model family? Here's a handy roundup to get you up to speed.

Google's new AI Mode aims to give users "a wider and more diverse" set of results than AI Overviews.

AI Mode is powered by a custom version of Gemini 2.0. According to the company, it processes prompts with a method dubbed query fan-out that involves running multiple searches and then combining the results into a single answer. An AI Mode response can include up to multiple paragraphs.