Google opened yesterday Google I/O 2026its annual developer conference, with an official keynote at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. The company already presented new products and functions a week ago, in the Android Showbut there is no shortage of news in the days that end today. Sundar PichaiCEO of Google, also talked about numbers and how your generative AI models are workingleaving a series of very illustrative data about its penetration.
The application Gemini has more than 900 million monthly active usersand more than half of them have joined in the last 12 months. By comparison, the Gemini app had just 400 million monthly active users at last year’s I/O.
As for other products, the Google CEO revealed that Views created with AI (AI Overviews) already have more than 2.5 billion monthly users and that he AI Mode on Google Search, launched about a year ago, first in the United States, has surpassed 1 billion monthly users.
It also showed the 13 Google products with more than 1 billion users each. This is the list.
- Google Search.
- Gmail.
- Google Drive.
- Google Chrome.
- Google Maps.
- Google Play.
- Google Calendar.
- Google Photos.
- Android.
- Google Discover.
- Google Lens.
- YouTube.
- Google Messages.
It should be noted that five of them, Google Search, Gmail, Android, Chrome and YouTube, already have more than 3 billion users per beard.
Nano Banana, SynthID and tokens
One of the things people do with AI is generate images using natural language instructions. Nano Banana It has become the company’s great revelation during the last year. The model has been used to generate more than 50 billion images.
The tool SynthID by Google is used to add a digital watermark to AI-generated images. This three-year-old tool has been used to mark as ‘made by AI’ More than 100 billion images and videos, as well as more than 60,000 years of audio resources. Google added a SynthID detector in the Gemini app, which has already been used more than 50 million times.
Pichai also revealed that, two years ago, the company processed more than 97 billion tokens per month on their services. That figure increased to 480 billion of tokens in 2025 and now Google processes 3.2 trillion tokens every monthseven times more than last year. ‘I never imagined I’d say three quadrillion in an I/O keynote, but here we are’Pichai noted.
More than 8.5 million developers They now create apps using Google’s AI models every month. The company’s modeling APIs already process 19 billion tokens per minuteincreasing usage six-fold since January 2025. Pichai noted that more than 375 customers processed more than a trillion tokens each in the last 12 months.