{"slug": "googles-gemini-app-surges-to-one-billion-users", "title": "Google’s Gemini app surges to one billion users", "summary": "Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced via X that the Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th Google product to reach that milestone and one of the company's fastest-growing products. The app's growth keeps pace with OpenAI's ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users in June, and Google reports 63% of Gemini users use the voice feature, with over 150 million images generated daily.", "body_md": "In a significant milestone for Google, CEO Sundar Pichai [announced](https://x.com/newsfromgoogle/status/2087233951031009665?s=46&t=sVvVqfqtrpFRLF39Bfwg9w) 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.\n\nWith this rapid growth, Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit [1 billion monthly active users ](https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-app-hits-1-billion-monthly-active-users-record-time-data-shows-2026-06-02/)back in June.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe company also continued rolling out new models and features, including [Gemini 3.5 Flash](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/with-gemini-3-5-flash-google-bets-its-next-ai-wave-on-agents-not-chatbots/), which Google says is designed to improve coding and autonomous AI-agent tasks.\n\nGoogle also shared numbers at how people are actually using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature. Plus, Gemini now generates more than 150 million images every day, according to Google.\n\nAnd Gemini’s growth isn’t limited to Google’s own products. The company says it now has more than 100 million active users on iOS.\n\nThe milestone comes right after its Q2 2026 earnings call, where the company celebrated having [over 950 million monthly users](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/google-closes-in-on-another-billion-user-product-with-gemini/), with daily active users tripling this past year. The announcement also comes ahead of its Made by Google event, where it’s expected to have more Gemini-powered features launching across Pixel devices.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/googles-gemini-app-surges-to-one-billion-users", "canonical_source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/googles-gemini-app-surges-to-one-billion-users/", "published_at": "2026-08-11 18:49:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-11 19:06:23.893989+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai", "ai-products", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Google", "Sundar Pichai", "Gemini", "OpenAI", "ChatGPT", "Gemini 3.5 Flash", "iOS"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/googles-gemini-app-surges-to-one-billion-users", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/googles-gemini-app-surges-to-one-billion-users.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/googles-gemini-app-surges-to-one-billion-users.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/googles-gemini-app-surges-to-one-billion-users.jsonld"}}