United Kingdom, April 8 -- Google's AI Mode is being upgraded with "multimodal" search.

The latest update - which combines Google Lens with Gemini - will allow you to search uploaded images and pictures taken on your smartphone.

In a blog post, Google explained: "With AI Mode's new multimodal understanding, you can snap a photo or upload an image, ask a question about it and get a rich, comprehensive response with links to dive deeper."

The tech giant noted that the AI Mode can now "understand the entire scenes in an image", and offer a more in depth analysis for any questions.

The company added: "AI Mode builds on our years of work on visual search and takes it a step further.

"With Gemini's multimodal capabilities, AI Mode can unde...