Gemini AI Becomes Much More Efficient Thanks to “Agents”: How Does It Work?

Google is using its Google I/O 2025 conference to make a series of announcements around Gemini AI. Among other things, it's talking about a new Agent Mode, which will allow it to carry out in-depth searches for you that would otherwise be time-consuming.

Google I/O 2025 is definitely focused on AI this year. Alongside the launch of Gemini 2.5 models, the firm announced the upcoming arrival of an “Agent Mode” in the Gemini app. This new mode will take advantage of what is called agentization – to perform more advanced searches for you in the background, thus completing work that could otherwise take you several days.

In the presentation, the firm used the tedious task of finding an apartment as an example. Thanks to your prompt and the “Agent mode,” Gemini will perform an in-depth search for you, respecting all your criteria. To do this, Gemini will divide the tasks and launch a separate series of prompts that will act in parallel for greater efficiency. These sub-prompts are called “agents.”

Google equips Gemini with its own “Deep Search”

Once all the agents have done their work, Gemini alerts the user and presents its results. Given the few details provided by the company, the feature seems a bit like a déjà vu. It more or less matches the description of the “Deep Search” mode available on ChatGPT. The way it works seems to work in fact identical, as it involves letting the AI perform a complex search in the background before delivering particularly detailed results.

Google may, however, have a card to play to improve the performance of this system. ChatGPT remains relatively limited in what it can or cannot consult and the sites it can use and from which it can extract reliable results. For now, however, we will have to be patient to compare the two approaches. Google will not offer “Agent mode” immediately.

The company specifies that this new option is first available in an “Experimental” version as part of a test that should begin “soon.” Before a likely worldwide rollout, at a time that is still unknown.