Google’s Gemini app surges to one billion users
11:49 AM PDT · August 11, 2026
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. Pichai also noted it was the 14th Google product to hit the 1 billion mark.
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. Google’s AI Mode in Search, in particular, has achieved a lot of success, with over 1 billion monthly active users globally. But today’s figure refers specifically to the Gemini app, and does not include AI users from other channels.
The company also continued rolling out new models and features, including Gemini 3.5 Flash, which Google...
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