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Google AI Mode

Conversational AI search inside Google powered by Gemini with follow-up questions

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What Google AI Mode does

  • Conversational AI search inside Google powered by Gemini with follow-up questions
  • Personal Intelligence brings Gmail, Photos and other Google apps context to free users in the US
  • Also reachable in the Chrome sidebar

Google AI Mode — straight answers

What is Google AI Mode?

Google AI Mode is listed under General Purpose Chatbots, in the AI Chat & Assistants category on Flocci AI Tools. Conversational AI search inside Google powered by Gemini with follow-up questions. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at google.com.

Is Google AI Mode free?

Google AI Mode is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 397 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

Can I use Google AI Mode in a browser, or is there an app?

Google AI Mode works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the web, inside another product, iOS and Android. You can sign in with a Google account.

What can Google AI Mode do?

Google AI Mode does 3 things the catalog singles out: Conversational ai search inside google powered by gemini with follow-up questions; personal intelligence brings gmail, photos and other google apps context to free users in the us; also reachable in the chrome sidebar.

What is the best free alternative to Google AI Mode?

Apertus Chat (Public AI) is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same General Purpose Chatbots sub-category and is free. Falcon LLM Chat (TII), HuggingChat and Jais Chat also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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ChatGPT

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  • Free tier on OpenAI's fast GPT-6/GPT-5.x 'Luna' models, with a Think button for harder questions
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  • Custom GPTs and a large app/connector ecosystem
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Claude

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  • Free tier on Anthropic's Claude 5 family (Sonnet-class model by default)
  • Top-tier coding, writing and long-document reasoning
  • Artifacts for live code, document and app previews
  • Projects, memory, web search and MCP tool connectors
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Gemini

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  • Free tier on Gemini 3.x Flash models, with limited access to the top Pro model
  • Very long context for whole books, codebases and long videos
  • Deep Google Workspace and real-time Search integration
  • Native image (Nano Banana) and video (Veo) generation, Gemini Live voice
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Grok

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  • Free, rate-limited access to xAI's latest Grok 4.x models
  • Live data from X and the open web
  • Grok Imagine for image and video generation
  • Fast, less-filtered conversational style
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DeepSeek

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  • Free web and app chat on DeepSeek's V4-series models
  • Instant and Expert (deep-thinking) modes
  • Strong math, coding and reasoning at open-model cost
  • Models are also released as open weights
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Microsoft Copilot

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  • Free tier mixing frontier OpenAI models with Microsoft's own MAI models
  • Built into Windows, Edge and Microsoft 365
  • Voice, vision and image generation
  • Copilot Vision can see and talk through your screen
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