{"id":136697,"date":"2026-08-12T02:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/136697\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T02:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:09:08","slug":"googles-gemini-ai-assistant-reaches-one-billion-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/136697\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Gemini AI assistant reaches one billion users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"epa13026335 A 'Productivity' folder containing Artificial Intelligence applications is displayed on a mobile phone alongside the Google Gemini logo displayed on a laptop screen in Liverpool, Britain, 09 June 2026. Leading AI (artificial intelligence) and technology companies Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are preparing to go public this year at an estimated combined valuation of around four trillion dollars (approximately 3.44 trillion euros). EPA\/ADAM VAUGHAN\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"912\" height=\"570\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"html-img h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19efc34f-7c6e-4fca-85bc-92f8f02262c7-Google-Gemini-EPA-12082026-.webp\"\/>A \u2018Productivity\u2019 folder containing Artificial Intelligence applications is displayed on a mobile phone alongside the Google Gemini logo displayed on a laptop screen. (EPA Images pic)<br \/>\nSAN FRANCISCO: Google\u2019s artificial intelligence assistant Gemini has surpassed one billion monthly users, CEO Sundar Pichai announced Tuesday, a week after a major reorganisation of the tech giant\u2019s AI division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cIt\u2019s our fastest growing product ever,\u201d and the 14th product to reach a billion users, Pichai posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">The milestone, which Google calculated based on how many people use the Gemini app across its ecosystem, gives the search giant a victory amid a major overhaul of its AI division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Demis Hassabis, who won a Nobel Prize in chemistry, recently stepped back from the day-to-day management of Google DeepMind, the lab that designs the Gemini models. And several leading researchers left as well, including Jeff Dean, a central figure in the group\u2019s engineering efforts for nearly three decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Its new flagship model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, initially promised for June, still has not been released, while its rivals have launched several models that are considered more powerful, particularly for generating computer code \u2014 currently the most lucrative area in the sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">In the face of this technological lag, Google\u2019s audience remains its main asset as it integrates AI into its ecosystem, from search and Gmail to Google Maps and YouTube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">OpenAI reached one billion users across all its interfaces, led by ChatGPT, the lab announced in July without specifying whether that figure was monthly or weekly users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">The San Francisco-based AI lab sparked the artificial intelligence boom when it launched its free ChatGPT app in November 2022, and thus built its user base from scratch in under four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Every audience metric feeds into the valuation that OpenAi hopes to achieve with an eventual IPO, for which it filed a confidential application in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">In a sign of tightening competition against Gemini, China\u2019s DeepSeek, and its San Francisco rival Anthropic, which makes Claude, ChatGPT\u2019s market share for AI assistants fell below 50 percent in the first half of the year, according to research firm Sensor Tower, which uses company data to estimate usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u2018Productivity\u2019 folder containing Artificial Intelligence applications is displayed on a mobile phone alongside the Google Gemini logo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2408,19126,132,1430,67657,18564],"class_list":["post-136697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-google","tag-gemini","tag-gemini-ai-assistant","tag-google","tag-google-gemini","tag-one-billion","tag-users"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}