Building a frontier AI search experience

23/07/2025 43 min Episodio 11
Building a frontier AI search experience

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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.Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zUB5A_ezIOUChapters01:07 Search as a Frontier AI Product02:38 Reaching 1.5 Billion Users03:37 What Is AI Mode?04:17 Understanding Query Fan-Out05:18 Balancing Latency and performance with Gemini 2.5 Pro06:51 How Deep Search works09:08 Fine-tuning models for product experience11:24 Shifting user behaviors14:07 The rise of visual search16:52 Speech and conversational AI in Search18:36 Comparing Gemini and Search20:04 Real-time tool use in Search22:52 Evolving the Search interface26:03 Making Search more personal29:15 The agentic future of Search31:15 Agents beyond booking tickets37:11 On-the-fly software creation38:06 Google DeepMind and Search collaboration40:08 What's next for Search