{"id":3368,"date":"2026-08-11T23:41:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/chatgpt-and-gemini-both-just-passed-1-billion-users\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T23:41:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:41:42","slug":"chatgpt-and-gemini-both-just-passed-1-billion-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/chatgpt-and-gemini-both-just-passed-1-billion-users\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A screenshot showing Gemini Live during Google\u2019s Super Bowl ad\" data-caption=\"That\u2019s a lot of people chatting with their AI friends all day. | Image: Google\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Google\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/gemini-live-ai-ad.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tThat\u2019s a lot of people chatting with their AI friends all day. | Image: Google\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sundarpichai\/status\/2087222656819241292\" target=\"_blank\">posted on X<\/a> that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google&rsquo;s fastest-growing product ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn&rsquo;t the first AI app to hit it. OpenAI&rsquo;s ChatGPT hit the mark a few weeks ago, though the company buried the announcement that \u00ab\u00a0more than 1 billion people are putting ChatGPT to work\u00a0\u00bb in an <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/how-the-world-is-putting-chatgpt-to-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">otherwise anodyne blog post<\/a> about how people use AI. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/chatgpt-app-hits-1-billion-monthly-active-users-record-time-data-shows-2026-06-02\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">External data suggested<\/a> ChatGPT crossed 1 billion users as early as this June, but OpenAI hadn&rsquo;t announced anything until that post on August 6th.  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/978113\/chatgpt-gemini-1-billion-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s a lot of people chatting with their AI friends 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