Google's Gemini app nips at ChatGPT's heels as it nears 1 billion users

Google’s Gemini AI app has reached 950 million monthly active users, with daily active users tripling in the past year. This growth puts Gemini close to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has approximately 1 billion monthly users. Google has been improving its models for cost-effectiveness and speed, releasing new versions like Gemini 3.6 Flash and beginning work on Gemini 4.

• Google’s Gemini AI app has 950 million monthly active users.
• Daily active users of Gemini have tripled in the past year.
• Gemini is approaching the user count of OpenAI’s ChatGPT (around 1 billion monthly users).
• Google reported over 750 million monthly active users in February.
• The company is releasing cost-friendly and faster AI models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash.
• Early work on Gemini 4 has begun.
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