Google AI Search now hooks into Canva and Instacart

Google is pushing AI Mode in Search further into everyday tasks. Starting this week in the US, users can connect Canva, YouTube Music and Instacart and use Google’s search-based AI to create playlists, mock up designs and build shopping carts without jumping into a separate app.

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With YouTube Music, users can describe a mood or genre and have Gemini generate a playlist. The suggested playlist appears in the AI Mode chat feed, and can then be opened in the music app.

With Canva, Google says AI Mode can create design templates such as flyers for a party. It can also pull in relevant context from other Google services, including calendar details, to tailor the result. For Instacart, AI Mode can add ingredients and grocery items directly to a user’s cart. If a user has an event like a BBQ saved in their calendar, that context can be used to build the shopping list.

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Google says it is working with more partners on similar integrations.

The company describes this broader cross-app capability as Personal Intelligence, Gemini’s ability to use information from other apps to improve responses. That feature was added to AI Mode at the beginning of this year, and Google has continued expanding what Search can do throughout 2026.

A few months ago, Google also began letting AI Mode pull from Reddit for what it called expert first-hand accounts. At I/O 2026, the company said AI Search would deliver smarter results, and it introduced a new Intelligent Search Box that can expand for more complex queries. Google says the box also accepts videos, images, files and even Chrome tabs as inputs.