Google's take on an AI search engine just got a multimodal improvement, allowing you to pull results of what you see.

“AI Mode builds on our years of work on visual search and takes it a step further,” says Robby Stein, VP of product for Google Search. “With Gemini’s multimodal capabilities, AI Mode can understand the entire scene in an image, including the context of how objects relate to one another and their unique materials, colors, shapes, and arrangements.”

The Globe's tech columnist tested out Perplexity, which combines a Google-like index of the web with a system that uses multiple artificial models.