The new mode is the latest step in the trend of tech companies integrating AI tools into more of our daily processes.

Google is preparing to publicly unleash its AI Mode search engine tool for the first time. The company announced today that “a small percentage” of people in the US will start seeing an AI Mode tab in Google Search “in the coming weeks,” allowing users to test the search-centric chatbot outside of Google’s experimental Labs environment.

The AI-infused search feature had only been available to users in Google's Search Labs; now, it's more generally available as the company looks to compete with OpenAI and Microsoft Bing.