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Google’s Gemini app climbs to 1 billion users
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In a significant milestone for Google, CEO Sundar Pichai announced via X that the Gemini app has become one of the company’s fastest-growing products, recently surpassing 1 billion monthly active users.
Key facts
- The milestone comes right after its Q2 2026 earnings call, where the company celebrated having over 950 million monthly users, with daily active users tripling this past year
- In a significant milestone for Google, CEO Sundar Pichai announced via X that the Gemini app has become one of the company’s fastest-growing products, recently surpassing 1 billion monthly active
- Google’s AI Mode in Search, in particular, has achieved a lot of success, with over 1 billion monthly active users globally
- With this rapid growth, Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June
Summary
With this rapid growth, Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June. The company has been steadily integrating Gemini across its products, from Search and Workspace to Android and its standalone app. The company also continued rolling out new models and features, including Gemini 3.5 Flash, which Google says is designed to improve coding and autonomous AI-agent tasks. Google also shared numbers of how people are using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature.