Google’s Gemini app now has greater than 450 million month-to-month lively customers (MAU) with day by day utilization of the AI chatbot app rising by greater than 50 per cent from the earlier quarter.
These figures have been revealed by Shekar Khosla, the vp of promoting and website lead at Google India, in a put up on LinkedIn on Friday, July 25. “The numbers say all of it! @GeminiApp momentum is rising,” he mentioned.
The rise within the Gemini app’s MAU depend comes weeks after Google introduced that Indian college students aged 18 years and above are eligible totally free entry to its premium AI Professional subscription plan, which in any other case prices Rs 19,500 per 12 months. The coed provide is legitimate till September 15, 2025.
As a part of the subscription package deal, customers get entry to the newest AI fashions developed by the tech large akin to Gemini 2.5 Professional and Deep Analysis in addition to its AI video generator, Veo 3. It additionally gives expanded entry to AI instruments akin to Stream, Pocket book LM, and many others.
Google, at its I/O Join India 2025 occasion held earlier this month, introduced a slew of recent initiatives and AI capabilities to help the Indian developer and startup ecosystems. The corporate introduced collaborations with three startups, Soket AI, Sarvam, and Gnani, to facilitate the event of sovereign foundational AI fashions beneath the IndiaAI mission.
With the Gemini app, Google goes head-to-head with OpenAI’s ChatGPT app which is broadly thought of to be the dominant participant within the AI chatbot panorama. The ChatGPT app is estimated to have round 600 million MAUs, in line with courtroom filings that have been launched in March this 12 months.
The Gemini app nonetheless has some floor left to cowl, however it’s shortly gaining traction. Forward of its annual I/O developer convention in Might 2025, CEO Sundar Pichai had revealed that the Gemini AI app has greater than 400 million MAUs.
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Whereas Gemini could also be drawing away customers from ChatGPT within the app area, OpenAI’s common AI chatbot poses a critical risk to Google’s core search enterprise. The Microsoft-backed startup lately mentioned it receives 2.5 billion prompts from customers world wide day-after-day, with greater than 300 million of these prompts coming from customers within the US, in line with a report by Axios.
In the meantime, Perplexity has additionally emerged as a powerful contender as properly. Not too long ago, it overtook ChatGPT to turn out to be the highest app on Apple App Retailer in India. This improvement befell only a few days after the AI search startup, led by IIT Madras graduate Aravind Srinivas, introduced free Perplexity Professional subscriptions for a 12 months to eligible clients of Indian telco Bharti Airtel.