Google Says More Than 8.5 Million Developers Use Its AI Models Monthly
NEW DELHI — Google CEO Sundar Pichai said more than 8.5 million developers are now using the company’s artificial intelligence models each month to build apps and digital experiences, as the tech giant continues to expand its AI infrastructure and product offerings.
Pichai said Google expects its capital expenditures to reach nearly $190 billion this year, with much of that spending directed toward AI data centers, custom silicon and model training.
The Alphabet-owned company said it is seeing rapid growth across its AI ecosystem, with rising demand from developers, businesses and consumers. Google said its model APIs are now processing nearly 19 billion tokens per minute, while more than 375 Google Cloud customers each processed more than 1 trillion tokens over the past year.
Pichai also highlighted growing adoption of Google’s AI products. He said the Gemini app has crossed 900 million monthly active users, more than doubling from last year. AI-powered search tools are also seeing strong usage, with AI Overviews reaching more than 2.5 billion monthly users and AI Mode surpassing 1 billion monthly active users.
Google also unveiled several new AI tools and upgrades, including Gemini 3.5 Flash, a faster model focused on coding and real-world workflows, and Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent designed to perform tasks for users.
The company introduced updates to its AI infrastructure, including its latest generation of Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs, to support faster AI training and inference at scale.
Pichai said Google remains committed to an AI-first strategy, describing artificial intelligence as the most transformative technology for advancing the company’s mission and improving lives globally.
Google also introduced Ask YouTube, an AI-powered feature designed to help users find relevant moments in videos through conversational queries, along with Docs Live, which allows users to create and organize documents using voice-based prompts.
The company also expanded its AI transparency efforts through SynthID, its watermarking technology for AI-generated content. Google said more companies, including OpenAI, Kakao and Eleven Labs, are adopting the technology to improve verification of AI-created images, videos and audio. (Source: IANS)
