
Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June.
Google's Gemini app has reached one billion monthly active users, making it one of the company's fastest-growing products and the 14th Google product to achieve this milestone. This puts Gemini on pace with a competitor's chatbot, which reached the same user count several months earlier. The rapid adoption reflects Google's strategy of integrating Gemini across multiple platforms including Search, Workspace, Android, and a standalone app, with usage patterns showing that the majority of users engage through voice features and the app generates significant daily image output.

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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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