At its annual developer conference in Mountain View, Google unveiled its next leap in artificial intelligence: Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent embedded directly in its search bar. CEO Sundar Pichai described a future where users can book restaurants, follow news stories, or contact professionals with a single query. The company says its AI assistant Gemini now has 900 million monthly users — double last year’s figure — while its AI-powered search mode, AI Mode, has surpassed 1 billion monthly users globally.
The announcement comes after three years of Google scrambling to keep pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and it signals the company’s confidence that it has closed the gap.
