GOOGLE'S GEMINI APP SURPASSES 650 MILLION USERS AS AI INTEGRATION DEEPENS ACROSS ANDROID

Gemini app—the company’s unified platform for its generative AI model—has reached more than 650 million active users, reinforcing the rapid pace of adoption for large-scale AI systems integrated directly into mobile ecosystems.

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The milestone, announced internally and confirmed by company sources familiar with usage metrics, positions Gemini as one of the most widely deployed consumer AI applications in the world, alongside ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot.

The growth reflects Google's decision to embed Gemini into Android as a native experience rather than a separate product. By merging search, voice assistance, and text-generation tools within the same interface, the company has effectively turned its AI model into a central navigation layer for daily smartphone use.

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Gemini was introduced earlier this year as the successor to the Google Assistant, consolidating AI chat, reasoning, and multimodal capabilities into a single interface. The app functions as both a standalone assistant and a system-wide tool accessible through Android’s home button and voice commands. It combines traditional search features with contextual reasoning—allowing users to generate text, summarize documents, or interpret images directly within messaging, email, or browser windows.

The seamless integration has been key to its expansion. Rather than requiring users to install a separate product, Google pushed Gemini through system updates, embedding it into recent versions of Android 15 and Pixel devices. Once activated, Gemini handles many of the same queries previously routed through Search or Assistant, while drawing on the company's latest Gemini 1.5 Pro model for complex tasks.