EQUIPThe Verge · 2h ago
ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users
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Google Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT have both exceeded one billion monthly active users. This milestone reflects rapid enterprise adoption and the scaling of generative AI into mainstream global communication workflows.
- 01Gemini is now recognized as the fastest-growing product in Google history
- 02OpenAI reached the billion-user milestone ahead of Google's flagship AI integration
- 03Fourteen distinct Google products have now achieved the one billion user threshold
- 04Massive user scale indicates generative AI is becoming a standard utility for global business
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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 […]