ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users

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Both Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT have surpassed 1 billion monthly users, marking significant milestones in AI adoption. Gemini is Google's fastest-growing product, while ChatGPT quietly crossed the billion-user threshold earlier this year.

That’s a lot of people chatting with their AI friends all day. | Image: Google For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google's fastest-growing product ever. A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn't the first AI app to hit it. OpenAI's ChatGPT hit the mark a few weeks ago, though the company buried the announcement that "more than 1 billion people are putting ChatGPT to work" in an otherwise anodyne blog post about how people use AI. External data suggested ChatGPT crossed 1 billion users as early as this June, but OpenAI hadn't announced anything until that post on August 6th. … Read the full story at The Verge.