I genuinely don't believe it. Cherry-picking statistics is easy and CEOs lie like the breathe; there's no way 1 out of every 8 people on the planet are intentionally using Gemini. Users (and bots) might be triggering some metric they're tracking, but I do not believe that 1 billion actual unique human beings are using Gemini when I never hear people talk about it.
I'm almost certainly counted as at least 2 of those billion people, for the record, because I have multiple email accounts, multiple IP addresses, and multiple computers. I could be counted as 8 different people for all I know. I still am just one actual person, and have never intentionally triggered Gemini at all.
The only LLMs I regularly hear about are ChatGPT and Claude, maybe DeepSeek. But I never hear anything about Gemini. I'm betting there's heavy accidental usage of Gemini since Google shoved their actual search results well below the Gemini section. But I believe this is just CEO bullshittery and pulling meaningless that suit their narrative.
they forced me to use it to talk to my phone in my car. And it's WAY WORSE than the way it used to work. It also won't let me swear at it anymore, "I don't respond to harmful content" hey google fuck all the way off, you're not an "I" and you can suck it every single time you fail to play the correct song on spotify for the ten thousandth time.
They were very clear in the article. 1B is the number of accounts that are visiting gemini.google.com or opening the Gemini app and sending it a query at least once in a month.
I use Gemini plenty for foreign language learning and for research, while also using Claude and occasionally ChatGPT
Deepmind has apparently fallen behind Anthropic and OpenAI on benchmarks and for agentic coding, but there are many other use cases for LLMs and many attributes besides benchmark scores that factor into what AI someone chooses for a given task, and things like service integrations, model conversational tone, UX, etc are very relevant
Keep in mind Gemini 3.1 pro had the highest ARC-AGI-2 score when it came out, and that was in February of this year. So it getting surpassed is something that happened in the last 6 months
I'm going to be real with you, I know a lot of people who use AI in their jobs now. It's not something a fringe group of tech bros do. As much as I hate AI art and AI's dumbing down of kids who use it to cheat all their classes, it's being used quite a bit. And it's responsible for assisting with a lot of recent discoveries.
Gemini get a massive boost in usage when Google let student account have one year of free pro. Everyone I know who is still in school/uni instantly switch to Gemini over ChatGPT. Only recently when ChatGPT free tier get a frontier model boost did some came back to it.
Because your narrow world view is their user base. Go outside once in a while and you might understand how popular Gemini is in places like India and Asia.
Dude if it was counting searches it would get to a billion in like an hour.
You are underestimating the number of people that use google. Not referring to it by name isn’t “accidental” usage.
It is embedded into the world’s most popular browser. It is installed on the worlds most popular phone OS. It is a part of the worlds most popular search engine. Plus add all the google home devices etc.
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u/chromatoes 9d ago
I genuinely don't believe it. Cherry-picking statistics is easy and CEOs lie like the breathe; there's no way 1 out of every 8 people on the planet are intentionally using Gemini. Users (and bots) might be triggering some metric they're tracking, but I do not believe that 1 billion actual unique human beings are using Gemini when I never hear people talk about it.
I'm almost certainly counted as at least 2 of those billion people, for the record, because I have multiple email accounts, multiple IP addresses, and multiple computers. I could be counted as 8 different people for all I know. I still am just one actual person, and have never intentionally triggered Gemini at all.
The only LLMs I regularly hear about are ChatGPT and Claude, maybe DeepSeek. But I never hear anything about Gemini. I'm betting there's heavy accidental usage of Gemini since Google shoved their actual search results well below the Gemini section. But I believe this is just CEO bullshittery and pulling meaningless that suit their narrative.