- CEO Sundar Pichai reveals Google processes 3.2 quadrillion AI tokens monthly, up from 480 trillion.
- Google Cloud clients exceed 1 trillion AI tokens each, reflecting rapid growth in AI adoption.
- Five Google services, including Search and YouTube, now boast over 3 billion users each globally.
Google's name comes from the mathematical term googol, a very, very large number. On Tuesday, at the company's I/O conference, Google's numerical destiny seemed to come true.
CEO Sundar Pichai shared the latest numbers from some of Google's most important products, especially newer AI offerings.
First up: tokens, the core unit of use in generative AI. Pichai shared that Google now processes 3.2 quadrillion AI tokens monthly. That's up from 480 trillion a year ago and 9.7 trillion in May 2024.
Next, the CEO said more than 375 Google Cloud customers used over 1 trillion tokens each over the past 12 months.
Five Google services — Search, Gmail, Android, Chrome, and YouTube — now have more than 3 billion users each, Pichai added.
AI Overviews in Google Search has over 2.5 billion monthly active users, the CEO also said.
AI Mode in Search has more than 1 billion monthly active users.
And Google's Gemini app recently topped 900 million monthly active users, up from 400 million about a year ago, the CEO added.
Roughly a decade ago, Google used its I/O conference to unveil a major machine-learning push, which put the internet giant at the forefront of the AI field many years before most other companies.
Now, Google is racing against OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and other tech giants to develop models, agents, chatbots, and other AI services.
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