Google's AI infrastructure is processing data at an unprecedented scale, with CEO Sundar Pichai revealing at Google I/O 2025 that the company now handles 480 trillion tokens monthly across its ecosystem—a dramatic 50-fold increase from the 9.7 trillion tokens processed this time last year.
This massive scaling of AI processing power coincides with significant user adoption metrics. The Gemini app has surpassed 400 million monthly active users, with particularly strong engagement for its advanced 2.5 Pro model, which has seen usage increase by 45 percent. For developers, the platform has become increasingly attractive, with over 7 million now building with Gemini—five times more than a year ago.
Google's enterprise AI offering has shown even more dramatic growth, with Gemini usage on Vertex AI increasing 40 times year-over-year. This surge in adoption spans across Google's product ecosystem, with AI Overviews in Search now reaching more than 1.5 billion users monthly across 200 countries and territories.
The scale of Google's AI processing demonstrates the mainstream adoption of generative AI technologies and positions Google as a formidable competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT, which was estimated to have around 600 million monthly active users as of March 2025.
Pichai characterized this extraordinary growth as evidence that "we're in a new phase of the AI platform shift, where decades of research are now becoming reality for people, businesses and communities all over the world." The company is leveraging this momentum to introduce new capabilities like AI Mode in Search, which allows for more complex and conversational queries.
Google's massive computational capacity—processing nearly 500 trillion tokens monthly—creates a significant competitive advantage in the AI space, enabling the company to power increasingly sophisticated AI features across its product lineup while maintaining industry-leading response speeds.