Gemini climbs to 1B MAUs in record Google growth

Google’s Gemini AI has reached 1 billion monthly active users, the fastest uptake of any Google product, driven by deep integration across Android and apps like Gmail, Drive, and Search. About 63% of active users utilize voice input (with an increasing share being voice-only), and 20% of Gemini Live users share camera feeds or screens. Daily, Gemini users generate roughly 150 million AI-generated images watermark-protected by SynthID. Over 100 million MAUs are on iOS. Despite the milestone, progress on model releases has slowed (Gemini 3.5 Pro delays, Gemini 4 training underway) amid leadership changes and AI infrastructure costs, raising questions about sustainability against competition from OpenAI/Anthropic.