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ChatGPT and Gemini both exceeded 1 billion users: the AI chatbot competition entered a new stage. ChatGPT and Gemini successively crossed the 1 billion user mark, marking that AI chat tools have officially entered the era of ultra-large-scale platforms.
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ChatGPT and Gemini both exceeded 1 billion users: the AI chatbot competition entered a new stage. ChatGPT and Gemini successively crossed the 1 billion user mark, marking that AI chat tools have officially entered the era of ultra-large-scale platforms. Google CEO Pichai announced on the X platform that Gemini monthly active users exceeded 1 billion, becoming the fastest growing product in the history of Google. OpenAI is much more low-key, hiding the news that "more than 1 billion people are using ChatGPT" in a blog post about the use of AI. External data shows that ChatGPT has exceeded 1 billion monthly active users as early as June, and reached 1 billion weekly active users in July. However, the story behind the growth curve is not simple. OpenAI announced in February this year that ChatGPT had 900 million weekly active users, and it took five months to reach 1 billion. The growth rate has slowed down significantly compared to the previous halo of "the fastest growing software in history". The growth rate of Gemini is even steeper - 750 million monthly active users in February, 950 million disclosed in the earnings call at the end of July, and officially crossed the 1 billion line last week, with strong catching-up momentum. The competitive landscape is tightening rapidly. Gemini's 1 billion user data only counts the Gemini application itself, and does not count the usage of other products embedded with Google, but Gemini pre-installed on Android phones is included. Josh Woodward, the person in charge of Gemini, revealed that there are more than 100 million active users on iOS, which means that the vast majority of Gemini users come from the advantage of Android pre-installation, which also explains why OpenAI is eager to deploy its own hardware devices. Anthropic’s Claude has grown rapidly but its volume is still in the tens of millions, and the company has not publicly disclosed user data. The AI competition landscape has tightened significantly this year: the popularity of Claude Code forced OpenAI to launch Codex to compete, Google inserted Gemini into almost all product lines, and models from Chinese manufacturers are also rapidly rising. ChatGPT has long been synonymous with AI chatbots, and its once crushing lead has now narrowed significantly. The battle for one billion users is over, and the next phase of the battle will focus on how to get these one billion people to do more and how to make money from it. via AI News (author: AI Base)