{"id":138368,"date":"2026-08-13T06:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/138368\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T06:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:50:12","slug":"googles-ai-assistant-exceeds-1-billion-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/138368\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s AI assistant exceeds 1 billion users"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO, California\u00a0\u2014 Google\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Gemini has surpassed 1 billion monthly users, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday, a week after a major reorganization of the tech giant\u2019s\u00a0AI\u00a0division.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s our fastest-growing product ever,\u201d and the 14th product to reach a billion users, Pichai posted on social media.<\/p>\n

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\n This photograph shows a handheld smartphone displaying the icons of some of the main artificial intelligence based apps, including LLMs, chatbots and generative AI, with logos (from L) of Proton AG’s Lumo, Meta AI, Mistral Vibe (formerly Le Chat), xAI’s Grok, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity, Deepseek, OpenAI’s Chat GPT, Google’s Notebook LLM and generative AI music app Suno, in Saint-Mande, east of Paris, on July 15, 2026. (Photo by Martin LELIEVRE \/ AFP)\n <\/p>\n

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\u00a0AI\u00a0division.<\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0\u2014\u00a0currently the most lucrative area in the sector.<\/p>\n

In the face of this technological lag, Google\u2019s audience remains its main asset as it integrates\u00a0AI\u00a0into its ecosystem, from search and Gmail to Google Maps and YouTube.<\/p>\n

OpenAI reached 1 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

The San Francisco-based\u00a0AI\u00a0lab sparked the artificial intelligence boom when it launched its free ChatGPT app in\u00a0November\u00a02022, and\u00a0thus built its user base from scratch in under four years.<\/p>\n

Every audience metric feeds into the valuation that OpenAI hopes to achieve with an eventual initial public offering, for which it filed a confidential application in June.<\/p>\n

In a sign of tightening competition against Gemini, China\u2019s DeepSeek and\u00a0its San Francisco rival Anthropic, which makes Claude, ChatGPT\u2019s market share for\u00a0AI\u00a0assistants 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

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