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"These 1 billion users may also be encountering Gemini in all those places, but that’s not the MAU metric. Pichai is talking only about people who are opening the Gemini app or visiting the Gemini web interface to enter a prompt or access Gemini Live. If you used Gemini only once in the past month, you are part of this cohort"
AI Overviews are not accounted for.
That seems so impossible that it's absurd. I hear people talking about one thing. ChatGPT, nobody even mentions Gemini. If it's Gemini they're using, nobody is aware it is Gemini, and the only place that happens is on the google search page, not a Gemini app.
Though I guess it's possible all their 1B users are concentrated in India and China and I'd never know.