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  "claim": "Google AI Mode has passed 1 billion monthly users and the Gemini app has 950 million (Google, July 2026)",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"How many people use Gemini / Google AI Mode?\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
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  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Alphabet / Google (CEO Sundar Pichai)",
    "title": "Q2 2026 earnings call: Remarks from our CEO (July 22, 2026)",
    "year": "2026"
  },
  "quote": "Since expanding AI Mode globally last October, we've surpassed 1 billion monthly active users. ... the Gemini app, which now has 950 million monthly active users, with daily active users tripling in the last year.",
  "method": "Company-reported monthly active users.",
  "drift": [
    "Definition: company-defined monthly active users; not independently audited"
  ],
  "interest": "Google sells advertising and AI subscriptions.",
  "safe_rephrasing": "Google said on July 22, 2026 that AI Mode had passed 1 billion monthly active users and the Gemini app had 950 million.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Google blog — Q2 2026 earnings call remarks",
      "url": "https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/alphabet-earnings-q2-2026/",
      "primary": true
    },
    {
      "title": "Google blog — Q2 2025 earnings call remarks (Gemini app 450M then)",
      "url": "https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/alphabet-earnings-q2-2025/",
      "primary": true
    }
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  "kind": "reference_fact",
  "as_of": "Stated July 22, 2026",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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