Building a frontier AI search experience

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_ezIOU

Chapters
01:07 Search as a Frontier AI Product
02:38 Reaching 1.5 Billion Users
03:37 What Is AI Mode?
04:17 Understanding Query Fan-Out
05:18 Balancing Latency and performance with Gemini 2.5 Pro
06:51 How Deep Search works
09:08 Fine-tuning models for product experience
11:24 Shifting user behaviors
14:07 The rise of visual search
16:52 Speech and conversational AI in Search
18:36 Comparing Gemini and Search
20:04 Real-time tool use in Search
22:52 Evolving the Search interface
26:03 Making Search more personal
29:15 The agentic future of Search
31:15 Agents beyond booking tickets
37:11 On-the-fly software creation
38:06 Google DeepMind and Search collaboration
40:08 What's next for Search