Google is testing a brand new Gemini-aligned loading animation for AI Overviews in Search that’s flashier and bolder than the present strategy.

When loading, AI Overviews first say “Looking…” earlier than switching to “Producing…” with blue strains of textual content showing simply earlier than the textual content is available in. It’s badged with the Gemini sparkle + “AI Overview” or beaker + “Search Labs | AI Overview” when you’re in that beta program. 

Google is now testing a brand new animation in Search Labs that instantly says “Producing…” within the top-left nook adopted by “Trying this up” decrease within the web page after which “Placing all of it collectively.” There’s a blue and purple highlight pulsating by means of the oblong container that extra explicitly connects AI Overviews to Gemini. The same glow seems across the Gemini overlay on Android and in Gemini Stay.

The label on the prime says “Generative AI is experimental,” which harkens again to the early days of AI Overviews.

This might simply be a brand new animation, however one risk is that the brand new look coincides with Gemini 2.0. Earlier this month, the corporate began testing the brand new mannequin for AI Overviews in Search. Google mentioned Gemini 2.0’s “superior reasoning capabilities” will assist AI Overviews “sort out extra complicated subjects and multi-step questions, together with superior math equations, multimodal queries and coding,” with a broader rollout “early subsequent 12 months. That may clarify the badge and why it appears to be a hair slower than what’s in steady. 

There are a handful of stories about this new animation, but it surely’s not but launched for all customers.