Google\u2019s AI assistant Gemini App now has more than 750 million monthly active users, CEO Sundar Pichai said at parent company Alphabet\u2019s fourth-quarter earnings call.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s roughly 100 million more users than the 650 million monthly active users the company reported in its third-quarter earnings report. That report was released just three weeks before the company\u2019s Gemini 3 debut<\/a> upended the AI world.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are also seeing significantly higher engagement per user, especially since the launch of Gemini 3,\u201d Pichai said. \u201c[Gemini 3] has seen the fastest adoption of any model in our history.\u201d<\/p>\n Google\u2019s AI story experienced a major turnaround<\/a> in mid-November thanks to Gemini 3, the company\u2019s latest AI model. AI enthusiasts praised the capabilities of the model far and wide on social media, with even some long-time ChatGPT fanboys like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff<\/a> admitting to converting to Gemini. AI benchmarking firm LMArena\u2019s cofounder Wei-Lin Chiang even called the release \u201cmore than a leaderboard shuffle<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Gemini 3 was so well-received that only a couple of weeks later, OpenAI leadership declared \u201ccode red<\/a>\u201d at the company. Even Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose company has significant business with OpenAI, reportedly<\/a> raised worries over the competition Google now poses to OpenAI\u2019s market dominance.<\/p>\n Despite the huge jump in users for Gemini, there might still be a long way to go until it can suprpass ChatGPT to become the chatbot leader. OpenAI doesn\u2019t report regular data on ChatGPT active users, but a The Information report<\/a> from December claimed that ChatGPT was nearing 900 million users weekly at the time.<\/p>\n Either way, Google\u2019s catch-up effort is impressive. With high-profile launches like Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro,<\/a> Google has been able to save its once-battered<\/a> AI reputation following the failed launch<\/a> of Gemini image generation in early 2024.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we are in a very, very relentless innovation cadence, and I think we are confident about maintaining that momentum as we go through \u201926,\u201d Pichai said in the earnings call. Executives shared that they are planning to double capital expenditures<\/a> in 2026, with the majority going towards AI.<\/p>\n Google has big plans for Gemini this year. Apple recently tapped Gemini to power its AI revamp of Sir<\/a>i that is set to launch later this year, and Samsung announced last month that it was planning to double the amount of its Gemini-infused mobile devices<\/a>. The company is also preparing to make Gemini more \u201cshoppable\u201d with checkout experiences infused directly into the app.<\/p>\n You might also want to start preparing to have your Gemini chats plagued by ads, but that might still be further on the horizon.<\/p>\n \u201cAds have always been part of scaling products to reach billions of people,\u201d Google\u2019s chief business officer Philipp Schindler said. \u201cBut as we\u2019ve said, we\u2019re not rushing anything here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s AI assistant Gemini App now has more than 750 million monthly active users, CEO Sundar Pichai said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,7159,276,277,49,48,27195,192,61],"class_list":["post-455157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alphabet-inc","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gemini","tag-google","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}