Google CEO: Gemini surpasses 1 billion monthly users, fastest-growing Google product
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on X that Gemini has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, making it Google's fastest-growing product ever and its 14th to reach the milestone. The announcement follows OpenAI's recent disclosure that ChatGPT also exceeded 1 billion users, with external data suggesting ChatGPT crossed that mark as early as June.
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Sundar Pichai / @sundarpichai : Sundar Pichai says Gemini has hit 1B+ MAUs, the company's fastest-growing product ever and its 14th product to hit the 1B-user mark — 1B+ people are now using @Geminiapp every month to spark new ideas and get things done. It's our fastest growing product ever, and our 14th to hit the 1B-user mark. Kudos to @JoshWoodward & the entire Gemini team, and thank you to everyone who has been on this journey with us - [image]
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Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June.
The Verge AI
That’s a lot of people chatting with their AI friends all day. | Image: Google For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google's fastest-growing product ever. A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn't the first AI app to hit it. OpenAI's ChatGPT hit the mark a few weeks ago, though the company buried the announcement that "more than 1 billion people are putting ChatGPT to work" in an otherwise anodyne blog post about how people use AI. External data suggested ChatGPT crossed 1 billion users as early as this June, but OpenAI hadn't announced anything until that post on August 6th. … Read the full story at The Verge.
