Google closes in on another billion user product with Gemini

Google is astir to adhd different sanction to its agelong database of products with much than a cardinal users, a database that already includes Search, Gmail, Drive, Android, YouTube, and Chrome. The institution said during its Q2 2026 telephone that the AI adjunct Gemini present has implicit 950 cardinal monthly users.

The institution noted that Gemini users person tripled from past year. Earlier successful February, it said that the Gemini app crossed 750 cardinal monthly progressive users. With this growth, Google’s adjunct is successful enactment to vie much intimately with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which deed 1 cardinal monthly progressive users in June.

“Users emotion caller agentic features similar Daily Brief and our personalized agent, Gemini Spark, which is present disposable successful the U.S. and internationally. We’ve been shipping adjuvant caller features similar this astatine an unthinkable pace,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said during the call.

Apart from users connected Android, the Gemini app has recovered a strong idiosyncratic basal connected iOS with launches similar the Nano Banana representation procreation model. According to AppFigures, the app has been downloaded implicit 137 cardinal times connected iOS successful the past 12 months.

In its latest “State of AI” report, the analytics steadfast Sensor Tower noted that ChatGPT’s marketplace stock among AI assistants fell beneath 50% for the archetypal time. The report, which looked astatine H1 2026, besides noted that Gemini’s stock roseate to 27.7%.

Many radical already usage AI adjunct apps arsenic a substitute for search. However, Google reported that its hunt vertical is going strong, partially acknowledgment to the AI-centric overhaul. During this quarter, its Q&A-style AI mode crossed 1 cardinal users. The institution said that it is driving “an incremental increase” successful hunt queries. Google besides noted that done hardware engineering, it has reduced the outgo of AI mode for the company, contempt introducing caller models and features.