
That’s a lot of people chatting with their AI friends all day. | Image: Google For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google's fastest-growing product ever. A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn't the first AI app to hit it. OpenAI's ChatGPT hit the mark a few weeks ago, though the company buried the announcement that "more than 1 billio
Two major AI chatbots have each reached 1 billion users, marking a significant milestone in AI adoption. ChatGPT reached this mark a few weeks before Gemini, though ChatGPT announced the achievement less prominently than Google did with Gemini. While ChatGPT appears to be the larger platform overall, Gemini's growth rate may be faster, suggesting the competition between these services is intensifying. The broader AI market has tightened considerably this year, with multiple companies competing and leapfrogging each other on capability, shifting ChatGPT from its former position as the dominant AI chatbot.

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Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video generator, Flow. When toggled off, Google will remove the "sparkle" watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of content generated with the company's Nano Banana and Omni models. Though visible watermarks are now optional, AI-generated content will have invisible

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.
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