Google Gemini Has 350 Million Monthly Users, Reveals Court Hearing 20
Google revealed in court that its Gemini AI chatbot reached 350 million monthly active users worldwide as of March 2025 -- up from 9 million daily users in October 2024. TechCrunch reports: Usage of Google's AI offerings has exploded in the last year. Gemini had just 9 million daily active users in October 2024, but last month, the company reportedly logged 35 million daily active users, according to its data. Gemini still lags behind the industry's most popular AI tools, however.
Google estimates that ChatGPT had roughly 600 million monthly active users in March, according to the company's data shown in court. That puts ChatGPT on a similar user base to Meta AI, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in September was nearing 500 million monthly users.
Google estimates that ChatGPT had roughly 600 million monthly active users in March, according to the company's data shown in court. That puts ChatGPT on a similar user base to Meta AI, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in September was nearing 500 million monthly users.
What are they counting (Score:4, Interesting)
If I Google something, Gemini will sometimes appear. Are these being counted in the total? If so, seems like shady math to me.
Re:What are they counting (Score:4, Interesting)
The Google Assistant on Android is being replaced [blog.google] with Gemini, too. So soon Google will be able to inflate their user numbers further by claiming every recent Android phone user as a "Gemini user".
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Is there any way to permanently disable the Gemini/Assistant ad that pops up in Android? I've turned "Off" everything I can find in the settings, disabled the "Assistant" service, and yet the popup keeps coming.
I guess I'm counted as another satisfied Gemini user per Google.
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This has been being tracked for a while. [demandsage.com]
The growth has been pretty stable.
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Except that doesn't count as a visit to Gemini, and nobody are inflating numbers.
This has been being tracked for a while. [demandsage.com]
The growth has been pretty stable.
In the early days of online ads, I could never figure out who was clicking on ads. I didn't and none of the people I knew were either.
However, online AI tools are different. I use ChatGPT and Gemini probably 20-30 times daily. My wife uses it. My kids use it. I believe the AI user numbers much more than the ad click numbers.
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The #1 used AI tool is copilot though.
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Are these being counted in the total?
No. If they were, the MAU would be in the billions.
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Yes, and technically, we are, thus, Gemini users.
I did actually use Gemini to make some VBS MS Word scripts. It eventually worked. Took three tries per simple script, with me saying what went wrong each time. It was faster than me trying to figure out how to program in VBS.
I then ran an LLM on my 16GB AMD card and tried to have it do basic things with the files I'd created. It struggled quite badly.
Now I'm hoping that Intel will ship 64 GB or 128GB ARC GPUs. Alas, they're just aiming for 24GB. Idiots.
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I did actually use Gemini to make some VBS MS Word scripts. It eventually worked. Took three tries per simple script, with me saying what went wrong each time. It was faster than me trying to figure out how to program in VBS.
I find AI tools to be a great way to learn about a new topic. It's like the Socratic method in reverse. I keep asking question, focusing on things I don't understand, asking for examples and clarifications. I can learn new topics far faster than reading textbooks or online pages.
Especially with learning new programming languages and tools, learning with AI saves a high amount of time. Far better than Stack Exchange or Google search.
I then ran an LLM on my 16GB AMD card and tried to have it do basic things with the files I'd created. It struggled quite badly.
Now I'm hoping that Intel will ship 64 GB or 128GB ARC GPUs. Alas, they're just aiming for 24GB. Idiots.
I only have a 12GB GPU. Every AI model I've run on it has been underwhelming
35 million daily active users - 350??? (Score:2)
How are they extrapolating "35 million daily active users" into 350 million monthly users? Is 10x the standard formula here? I've typically seen it more like 1.7x which would be ~60 million monthly users. By that measure they've over-estimated by about 290 million users which seems like a lot.
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Maybe they used Gemini to come up with the figures and it hallucinated the user numbers?
Oh, imagine a future where companies can say whatever they want to their investors, and then claim it was an "AI error" when called out on it later.
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I imagine they log all the ip addresses and count from that.
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From a purely technical perspective, I'll grant you that anonymous users who wipe their cookies between each visit will throw off the numbers by some microscopic amount, so we could say, "see! estimate!"
But it's not like that's going to be an amount of teh userbase that anyone cares about.
Meta Ai has 350m Monthly users? (Score:1)
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Phuulease. Doing a search on Facebook or instagram is not a usage of "Meta AI".
Correct, it's not. FB has ~3 billion MAU.
I find it so remarkable that people here are blind to the fact that this shit is basically ingrained into an entire generation now.
With the last update... (Score:1)
Gemini went from totally unusable trash to just trash
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Gemini went from totally unusable trash to just trash
Totally disagree on this one.
Gemini progressed spectacularly with the 2.5 pro release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
OpenAI (o3/4) and friends have a hard time trying to catch up.
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The days of high paying contracts will be coming to an end very shortly. I always assumed my skills would be of value until the day I died.
The power of these new AIs is absolutely mind blowing.
Society as we know it is in for a massive shakeup.
Fingers on the scale. (Score:2)
When I search for anything, Gemini pops up despite it being useless.
When I tell my phone to play the news or play some music or tell me the weather, Assistant was disabled and now Gemini tries to do it, but badly.
Features I liked on my phone were removed against my will and against my preference, now instead of something useful it just says "I am a large language model and I can't do that useful task".
When I use work tools that use Gmail, Gemini pops up and I can't turn it off.
When I use Google Docs, be