AI agents, or AI models that have been equipped with tools that enable them to take actions like navigating websites and running code, have been an extremely hot topic in 2025. Now, Google is integrating agents directly into its most important business: search.
According to a Thursday blog post, Google is beginning to roll out agentic capabilities to its AI Mode. For now, the only agentic capability available is restaurant reservations. Users will be able to ask AI mode to find them a reservation that matches their specific needs, including party size, date, time, location, and preferred food type.
When asked, AI Mode will search multiple reservation platforms, including OpenTable and Resy, to find options, and then present a list of multiple choices. But there is one key thing AI mode can’t do: Actually book the reservation. “AI Mode does the legwork and links you directly to the booking page,” Google wrote, “so you can easily take the last step and finalise your reservation.”
It should be noted that this new feature is only available for Google AI Ultra subscribers, who pay Google US$250 (RM1,054) per month for access to their most powerful AI models and applications, such as Gemini and video creator Veo.
In the near future, Google plans to open up AI mode to help with making service appointments and securing event tickets. AI mode will be able to parse websites including Ticketmaster, StubHub, and SeatGeek.
Google first revealed its AI mode in March and rolled it out to most Google users in May.
OpenAI also recently rolled out an agent mode for ChatGPT that lets the popular AI app undertake tasks like stocking a cart on an online shopping platform or finding plane tickets. And AI startup Perplexity has also recently gotten into the agent game with Comet, a web browser that includes an agentic assistant. – Inc./Tribune News Service
