Google's take on an AI search engine just got a multimodal improvement, allowing you to pull results of what you see.

The Globe's tech columnist tested out Perplexity, which combines a Google-like index of the web with a system that uses multiple artificial models.

Google is adding multimodal capabilities to its search-centric AI Mode chatbot that enable it to “see” and answer questions about images, as it expands access to AI Mode to “millions more” users. The update combines a custom version of Gemini AI with the company’s Lens image recognition tech,