Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users

quantified

If you have entered Gemini to try to figure out how to turn it off, you're also part of the cohort. A blast of gmail messages from Google has announced how it's part of everything and given instructions on how to find out the little you can do about it. Really, nothing.

esalman

I was skeptical at first but these days I use Gemini on Android phone and Android Auto, search AI summary, and lately Gemma 4 a lot. Skepticism is still needed though. The other day I asked Gemini while driving if there's a HoV lane going from 105 E to 110 S. It said yes. Actually there one to 110 N but not S. I did not act upon it because my co-passenger verified that Gemini was wrong. Search summary is useful but not for things that require deeper technical expertise- those result in bad hallucination. With corporate crunch on token budget, I've also started avoiding Claude and increasingly using opencode+Gemma 4, and developing some system prompts to iteratively improve the results.

stonecharioteer

Conflated numbers. Show me counts of returning users and session lengths.

meltyness

theyre sunsetting the google assistant that can "take me home"

rolph

what percentage are willing users making a choice to adopt?

faangguyindia

A company that can't make a dominating coding model well, I've no confidence in its general purpose intelligence model; as a result, I don't ask Gemini anything.

vivzkestrel

- eventually they ll beat both openAI and Anthropic because I can literally hear google saying this in bane's voice - "Ah so you think data is your ally? you merely scraped data, i was born in it, moulded by it, did not spare a single user until I was already a man"

pipeline_peak

You mean the Ai that unwillingly pops up on my Google searches?

nylonstrung

Gemini has gotten wildly worse in recent time, almost incapable of answering a question without a search, lengthy "thinking time" for trivial questions that no doubt is intended to mask waiting for inference resources

magekinnarus

This is Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with Windows all over again.

HDBaseT

I'm sure if you make Google Meet appear every time you made a Google query, it would also be the 'fastest-growing product ever'

wolvesechoes

Somewhat tangential, but when Google doesn't participate in frontier churn, earns money and make heavy investment in infrastructure that they rent to those participating in the churn, while still they are "losing the AI race". But when Apple doesn't participate in frontier churn, earns money, and needs to rely on Google for AI services, then this is "the Apple way", "do nothing and still win" uber-pragmatic 5D chess game.