Unlike chatbots that rely solely on their training data, Google's AI acts as a live researcher. For a single user query, the model executes a 'query fanout'—running multiple, targeted background searches to gather, synthesize, and cite fresh information from across the web in real-time.

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A new wave of startups, like ex-Twitter CEO's Parallel, is attracting significant investment to build web infrastructure specifically for AI agents. Instead of ranking links for humans, these systems deliver optimized data directly to AI models, signaling a fundamental shift in how the internet will be structured and consumed.

With models like Gemini 3, the key skill is shifting from crafting hyper-specific, constrained prompts to making ambitious, multi-faceted requests. Users trained on older models tend to pare down their asks, but the latest AIs are 'pent up with creative capability' and yield better results from bigger challenges.

Unlike other LLMs that handle one deep research task at a time, Manus can run multiple searches in parallel. This allows a user to, for example, generate detailed reports on numerous distinct topics simultaneously, making it incredibly efficient for large-scale analysis.

To create a reliable AI persona, use a two-step process. First, use a constrained tool like Google's NotebookLM, which only uses provided source documents, to distill research into a core prompt. Then, use that fact-based prompt in a general-purpose LLM like ChatGPT to build the final interactive persona.

Image models like Google's NanoBanana Pro can now connect to live search to ground their output in real-world facts. This breakthrough allows them to generate dense, text-heavy infographics with coherent, accurate information, a task previously impossible for image models which notoriously struggled with rendering readable text.

The future of search isn't just about Google; it's about being found in AI tools like ChatGPT. This shift to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) requires creating helpful, Q&A-formatted content that AI models can easily parse and present as answers, ensuring your visibility in the new search landscape.

AEO is not about getting into an LLM's training data, which is slow and difficult. Instead, it focuses on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)—the process where the LLM performs a live search for current information. This makes AEO a real-time, controllable marketing channel.

The agent development process can be significantly sped up by running multiple tasks concurrently. While one agent is engineering a prompt, other processes can be simultaneously scraping websites for a RAG database and conducting deep research on separate platforms. This parallel workflow is key to building complex systems quickly.

Advanced AI tools like "deep research" models can produce vast amounts of information, like 30-page reports, in minutes. This creates a new productivity paradox: the AI's output capacity far exceeds a human's finite ability to verify sources, apply critical thought, and transform the raw output into authentic, usable insights.

Google's "AI mode," powered by Gemini 3, is replacing static blue links with dynamically generated, interactive user interfaces. This shift means search results will become lightweight, composable apps tailored to the query, fundamentally altering SEO and the concept of website traffic.