Google Gemini близок к 1 млрд пользователей: уже 750 млн активных в месяц

Google is bringing its AI assistant Gemini closer to the one-billion-user mark: according to TechCrunch, as of February 2026 the service had more than 750 million monthly active users.

How Many Users Does Gemini Have

Gemini surpassed 750 million monthly active users by February 2026 — enough to put Google's assistant one step away from a billion-strong audience. This refers specifically to monthly active users (MAU), and the figure is a snapshot as of February, so the actual number may have changed by mid-2026. This growth makes Gemini one of Google's fastest-growing products since its launch in February 2024.

Key facts:

• More than 750 million monthly active users — data as of February 2026
• The goal is 1 billion: Gemini is close to becoming yet another Google service with that kind of audience
• Gemini launched in February 2024 as the successor to the Bard chatbot
• Google already has several products with audiences exceeding a billion: Search, YouTube, Gmail, Android, Chrome, Maps

What the "Billion Club" Means for Google

Google is bringing Gemini closer to the tight circle of its own services that each have more than a billion users. That circle includes Search, YouTube, Gmail, Android, Chrome, and Google Maps — products that have become the infrastructure of everyday internet use.

Gemini joining that list would mean Google's generative AI has stopped being a niche experiment and turned into a mass-market product on the same scale as its search engine. Many Google services took years to reach a billion users; Gemini approached three-quarters of a billion in roughly two years after its rebrand from Bard. Few new products manage to build an audience this fast — largely because Google embeds the assistant into services people already use every day.

Why Gemini's Growth Matters

Gemini's growth to 750 million monthly users comes amid direct competition with OpenAI's ChatGPT for the title of the mass-market AI assistant. Audience scale here isn't a vanity metric: the more users, the more data on real-world queries, the faster models get fine-tuned, and the higher the potential for subscription and advertising monetization.

Google relies on a distribution advantage that standalone AI services don't have. The assistant can be offered directly in Search, on Android smartphones, in the Chrome browser, and inside Workspace productivity apps — Gmail, Docs, and Sheets. It is likely this embedding into a ready-made ecosystem of billions of devices that explains how Gemini reached three-quarters of a billion users in just a couple of years.

User milestones have become the main currency in the AI assistant race. Both Google and OpenAI regularly publish audience figures as proof of leadership — figures watched closely by investors, advertisers, and developers deciding which platform to build products on.

According to

TechCrunch, in February Gemini had more than 750 million monthly active users — putting the product right on the doorstep of the billion-user mark.

What This Means

Gemini is turning from a challenger into one of the world's largest AI products. If Google pushes its audience to a billion, it will signal that the battle for mass-market AI assistant users is decided not only by model quality but also by the distribution power of major platforms — and Google has more of that power than any AI startup.