Building a frontier AI search experience

Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, joins host Logan Kilpatrick to explore how Search is evolving into a frontier AI product. Their conversation covers the shift from simple keywords to complex, conversational queries, the rise of agentic capabilities that can take action on your behalf, and the vision to help billions of users truly "ask anything." Learn more about the technology behind AI Overviews, AI Mode, Deep Search, and the future of multimodal interaction. Resources: Generative AI in Search: Let Google do the searching for you →https://goo.gle/45jEj5K AI in Search → https://goo.gle/46YHbpX Google AI overview → https://goo.gle/3ICmUN7 Chapters: 1:07 - Search as a Frontier AI Product 2:38 - Reaching 1.5 Billion Users 3:37 - What Is AI Mode? 4:17 - Understanding Query Fan-Out 5:18 - Balancing Latency and performance with Gemini 2.5 Pro 6:51 - How Deep Search works 9:08 - Fine-tuning models for product experience 11:24 - Shifting user behaviors 14:07 - The rise of visual search 16:52 - Speech and conversational AI in Search 18:36 - Comparing Gemini and Search 20:04 - Real-time tool use in Search 22:52 - Evolving the Search interface 26:03 - Making Search more personal 29:15 - The agentic future of Search 31:15 - Agents beyond booking tickets 37:11- On-the-fly software creation 38:06 -Google DeepMind and Search collaboration 40:08 - What's next for Search Watch more Release Notes → https://goo.gle/4njokfg Subscribe to Google for Developers → https://goo.gle/developers Speaker: Logan Kilpatrick Products Mentioned: Google AI