Breaking News:Google supercharges AI Overviews with Gemini 3– What Just Happened

Google is rolling out two major upgrades to Search, and no, none of them include getting rid of AI Overviews. Instead, the tech giant is trying to make the often-criticized feature a lot more useful, and it’s doing so by giving it a new brain and more functionality.

Google’s latest flagship model, Gemini 3, invaded Search on day one. This was all the way back in November 2025, when Gemini 3 started powering Google Search, “starting with AI Mode.”

The ‘starting with’ aspect didn’t make much sense back then, but it does now. Google is now expanding Gemini 3 to Search’s AI Overviews, and it applies to users globally.

The change should make AI Overview results a lot more detailed, complete, faster, and most importantly, more accurate.

In addition to the model upgrade, Google’s also making AI Overviews more useful by making them a gateway to AI Mode. Normally, when you search for something on Google, and read through the AI Overview, you have the option to tap the ‘Show more’ button to learn more.

Now, when you tap the ‘Show more’ button, the interface automatically changes into AI Mode’s chat window, allowing you to not only read more information about the topic at hand, but also ask follow-up questions and jump into a back-and-forth conversation. “In our testing, we’ve found that people prefer an experience that flows naturally into a conversation — and that asking follow-up questions while keeping the context from AI Overviews makes Search more helpful,” wrote the tech giant.

Credit: Google

As seen in the screenshots above, the new experience is live for me on the iOS version of the Google app, but not on the Android version. Is the AI Overview to AI Mode gateway live for you? Let us know in the comments below.