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 understand the entire scene in an image, including the context of how objects relate to one another and their unique materials, colors, shapes and arrangements."

Thanks to Lens, the feature can "precisely" focus on specific objects in an image, and then take in multiple questions at once.

Google said: "Drawing on our deep visual search expertise, Lens precisely identifies each object in the image.

"Using our query fan-out technique, AI Mode then issues multiple queries about the image as a whole and the objects within the image, accessing more breadth and depth of information than a traditional search on Google.

"The result is a response that’s incredibly nuanced and contextually relevant, so you take the next step."