Gemeni’s users have skyrocketed from last year. (Picture: Google)Google showed off an internal slide of monthly active users for its Gemini AI models, hitting a strong benchmark as of March 2025.
The same slide showed daily traffic was at 35 million active users.
Impressive growth
That signals an exponential growth from around 10 million monthly active users from late last year, reports Ars Technica.
It also shows the reach that’s been possible by defaulting to Gemini over Assistant on Android phones and the strength of offering 2.5 Pro to free users just a short while ago. Gemini is also the default assistant on Galaxy phones
OpenAI predicts astronomical revenue by the end of the decade. (Picture: Conceptphoto.info, CC BY 2.0)ChatGPT use is up to about «something like 10% of the world» said CEO Sam Altman, putting the numbers reached at roughly 800 million people, according to Pymnts.com, but that won’t be the main driver of income in coming years.
The company said in March that it anticipates revenue above $11.6 billion in 2025 – nearly tripling its 2024 numbers. It will then jump from $125B in 2029 to $174B in 2030.
Revenue will rise significantly once it can develop and charge for AI agents, and «free user monetization,» according to Slashdot.
What that «monetization» will entail is unclear so far, but Pymnts.com says they have considered things such as charging affiliate fees on links, giving it a cut of sales generated from the platform.
Google is using financial muscle to gain market share with Samsung users. (Picture: Google)As the antitrust remedy trial against Google continues, Google’s vice president of platforms and device partnerships, Peter Fitzgerald said in court on Monday that Googles payments started in January, after Google was found in breach of antitrust laws for paying Apple and others for placements of search products.
The two year deal included monthly payments and a share of ad revenue, writes The Verge.
The aim of the deal is to give Gemini the pride of being the default AI assistant og Galaxy phones, which sell a ton worldwide.
Should Google loose the trial, which is only for remedies after earlier being found guilty of a monopoly in advertising, they would be forbidden from deals like these, will have to sell Chrome, and open search data to licensing deals.
Meta stands to lose big on China revenue. (Picture: www.shopcatalog.com, CC BY 2.0)Analysts at MoffettNathanson have published a new research report that notes Metas total China revenue was $18.35 billion last year — or 11% of its total sales, according to CNBC.
Should the China tariffs stay in place, they are likely to influence the ad buying of fast fashion brands like Shein and Temu, which are some of the biggest advertisers on Facebook and Instagram.
— While Meta does not provide a country-level breakdown of revenue within Europe, we logically can presume that China is Meta’s second-largest revenue source after the United States — a remarkable position for a country where Meta has no users or active platforms, say the analysts in the report, according no CNBC.
If a feared recession should also hit this year, it could wipe $23 billion in revenue off balance sheet for Facebook — a 25% decrease.
Advertising is usually the first thing businesses cut in a downturn, hitting consumer facing businesses hard, and especially news and the media.
Google be forced to slll Chrome, and Openai is interested in buying it.If the the prosecution prevails in the current USA vs Google antitrust case, they could be forced to divest the most popular browser on the planet.
Now OpenAI’s ChatGPT head of product, Nick Turley, said in open court that they «would be interested» in buying it, according to Reuters.
Virtual employees are a step up mere agents and could be roaming the offces pretty soon. (Picture: Anthropic)
In a recent interview with Axios focusing mostly on security issues, Anthropic said «virtual employees» will be a step up from using mere «agents» on corporate networks.
This will be the next AI innovation, said Jason Clinton, the company’s chief of information security.
Whereas agents can focus on specific, programmable tasks, acts with some autonomy and of course require oversight, a «virtual employee» takes it a step further, with having their own memories and their own corporate accounts and passwords.
This is a major headache for cybersecurity, Clinton further explained, about oversight and hackability of the new employees.
Cluely AI is a “hidden” window over your browser that gives you the answers you need. (Picture: Cluely)The new AI startup is founded by Chungin “Roy” Lee and Neel Shanmugam, who recently made waves for using AI to cheat at Columbia University and at Amazon. Now they are going pro with a new app, hidden from even screen recorders.
AI cheating is, of course, a huge problem at schools and colleges and even for remote job interviews already, with many returning to in-person, written exams, and now these two are taking it to the next level.
AI puts advanced tools in the hands of low budget creators, says Co-CEO Ted Sarandos. (Picture: Netflix)James Cameron says we need AI in blockbuster movies to make them 50% cheaper. Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos rebuts this week that we can use it to make them «10% better» instead.
The debate started last week when Cameron took to a podcast to explain his board role at Stability AI, claiming he wanted to «figure out» the technology and how it can help in movies.
— If we want to continue to see the kinds of movies that I’ve always loved and that I like to make and that I will go to see — ‘Dune,’ ‘Dune: Part Two,’ or one of my films or big effects-heavy, CG-heavy films — we’ve got to figure out how to cut the cost of that in half, Cameron said, according to Variety last week.
The models are inching ahead in benchmarks, but multimodality is where they truly shine. (Picture: OpenAI)OpenAI’s latest model drop hints at a future where agents can do most of our work — and is proving the point with image processing.
The new reasoning models are managing an ever so slight lead in manybenchmarks and therefore earns the right to be called state of the art, but of particular note is that they improve on GPT o1 and o3-mini by almost 30% in the coding benchmark SWE-Bench Verified, OpenAI claims in their launch post.
— These are the smartest models we’ve released to date, representing a step change in ChatGPT’s capabilities for everyone from curious users to advanced researchers, says OpenAI.
The GhatGTP 4.1 are smarter than 4o, but are otherwise bang on average. (Picture: OpenAI9Sam Altman of OpenAI teased this weekend that we were in for a week of big launches, and chatter was about an open source model that would be better than anything available.
On Monday night, though, the AI company launched ChatGPT 4.1, 4.1-mini and 4.1-nano, which at first seem a bit underwhelming.
While you might be getting tired of ChatGPT’s word salad lineup, these latest models offer mostly cost efficiency and larger input levels for coding tasks. They won’t be available in the app — but are instead rolled out on the API.
No more re-entering facts in ChatGPT. It now remembers the past. (Picture: OpenAI)In a huge move for ChatGPT, all previous chats will be considered something akin to the «memory»-feature in coming updates to the Plus and Pro segments.
The feature is supposed to make ChatGPT more personal and relevant to users, and you wont have to manage the paltry «memories»-storage any more, writes TechCrunch.
Industry legends are coming in force to support AI tools. (Picture: id Software)The legendary co-creator of the Doom and Quake games for id Software, came out swinging on Monday in support of AI game tools, citing how the industry has developed from the early days of hand coding hex digits.
The heart of the issue is the release of Microsoft’s Copilot Labs’ release of an AI powered, fully playable tech demo of new Quake II maps this weekend.
It wasn’t made by hand or by coding, but rather built as an ai world you could navigate freely, and the frames are rendered on the fly — at 10 frames per second with a a resolution of 640 x 360.
People are astounded Meta used a non public, unreleased and optimized model on the industry’s most respected benchmark. (Picture: Meta)According to severalreports, it seems Meta used an unpublished Llama 4 Maverick model created especially to score well on the LMArena benchmark.
Surprisingly good ranking
The largest selling point for their latest Maverick model was how well it did in precisely this benchmark, scoring just above ChatGPT 4o-latest and and slightly below Gemini 2.5 Pro, considered the current cutting edge of AI engineering.
The fact that Llama 4 Maverick got second place in between these, on the most watched leaderboard in AI, raised a lot of eyebrows over the weekend.
The Llama 4 models seem tailor made for STEM benchmarks, runs on little hardware, and is very cost efficient. (Picture: LadyDragonflyCC, CC BY 2.0)The latest models out of Meta, the Llama 4 Maverick and the Scout, aren’t reasoning models, but put in extra work by using a panel of «experts» instead.
The models are rolling out right now on WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram Direct, where they are free for everyone with a membership.
Will answer «contentious» questions
According to TechCrunch, the new models will answer questions previous models wouldn’t, responding to «debated» questions and «contentious» prompts «without judgement:»
— We’re continuing to make Llama more responsive so that it answers more questions, can respond to a variety of different viewpoints, and doesn’t favor some views over others, a meta spokesperson told the website.
Miss Quake II? Now you can play new levels generated by AI. (Picture: Screenshot)Amid Ai fears in the gaming industry, replete with layoffs and questions about artistry in the age of AI, Microsofts Copilot labs has offered a glimpse into what the future of gaming might look like.
They spent only just over a week on training to produce a real time game model of Quake II, says Tom’s Hardware, that now plays a somewhat choppy 10 frames per second or so version of the game — with new, never before seen gameplay, generated on the fly.
