You can now create playlists, design flyers, and compile shopping lists using AI in search.
Google’s apparent mission to make AI infiltrate every aspect of your digital life continues today with new integrations with three different apps.
Rolling out this week in the US, you can now connect Canva, YouTube Music and Instacart to AI mode in search. The idea seems to be that AI services will fit more naturally into your day when you don’t have to think about opening the Gemini app to use them.
Let’s start with Google’s YouTube Music. Here you can use AI mode to create a playlist based on your prompt. Once you request the type of genres and mood you’re looking for, Gemini will connect to YouTube Music and drop the suggested playlist into the chat thread, which you can then open in the app.
You can also have the AI create design templates in Canva. Google uses the example of flyers for an upcoming party you might be planning, from which it can extract calendar information to design something appropriate.
In Instacart’s case, once you log in, you can ask it to add ingredients and groceries to your cart in the app. Again, if you have an event like a barbecue saved in your calendar, it will use that information when formulating your shopping list. Google says it is working with other partners to launch other similar integrations in the future.
Personal intelligence — what Google calls Gemini’s ability to pull information from other apps to help with its answers — was added to AI Mode earlier this year, and the company has been gradually expanding the features available in Search throughout 2026. A few months ago, it began allowing the AI to turn to Reddit for “expert” first-hand accounts that can inform its answers, and at I/O 2026, the company has promised that you will now get smarter results in AI search.
Google also launched a new smart search box that can dynamically expand to answer more complex queries. It also lets you use videos, images, files, and even Chrome tabs as inputs.
