Media reporting shows that Google began testing this feature in March, after AI Overviews has been active on the site for over a year. AI Overviews was said to have 1.5 billion users a year ago, so it’s likely that AI Mode will have quite a few people taking the model’s responses, rather than clicking through hyperlinks.

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