Gemini Usage Numbers

Recently, in Ars Technica - Google reveals sky-high Gemini usage numbers in antitrust case Google talks about the “significant increase”

During day three of Google’s antitrust remedies trial, the company presented a slide showing that Gemini reached 350 million monthly active users as of March 2025. That’s a massive increase from last year, showing that Google is beginning to gain traction among competing chatbots.

Seems to imply that it has improved significantly, leading to people using it more… But could it possibly have anything to do with Google just forcing it on to every Workspace customer, and every corner of all of their products?

Snarking aside, I have found Gemini to be more useful than it used to be, but it still is far less useful to me than ChatGPT. The embarassing part for Google, is that I find that even integrating ChatGPT with Google Drive works FAR better than the built in Gemini Side Panel…