Google's Gemini AI assistant reached 950 million monthly users, nearly tripling from the previous year and approaching the 1 billion-user milestone. The app was downloaded over 137 million times on iOS in the last 12 months, and Gemini's market share among AI assistants rose to 27.7% in the first half of 2026. Gemini is now positioned to compete more directly with OpenAI's ChatGPT, which reached 1 billion monthly active users in June, while Google's search-integrated AI mode also crossed 1 billion users this quarter.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory deployed Google's Gemma 3 language model aboard a satellite for the first in-orbit demonstration of a vision-language model analyzing satellite imagery, showing that researchers can now interact with spacecraft using natural language prompts instead of structured commands. The 4-bit Gemma 3 4B model achieved 88 percent accuracy on a benchmark of 7,960 images without being trained on that specific dataset, and ran on an Nvidia Jetson Orin AGX module consuming only 8GB of memory. The capability enables satellites to compress image data into text summaries, potentially reducing wildfire detection delays from 90 minutes to near-real-time and opening a new paradigm for spacecraft control via prompts rather than traditional software updates.
Google's Gemini Task Automation feature is officially launching on Samsung's new foldable phones after a beta period. The feature now supports integration with more than 40 apps on these devices. Users of Samsung's latest foldables gain access to automated task capabilities powered by Gemini AI.
Google is expanding Gemini's capabilities on Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Flip 8 foldables, including pre-installing Gemini Notebook for research and organization. Task automation support grows from a few apps to 40, enabling Gemini to shop, book reservations, and purchase tickets directly from the Flip 8's Flex Window. New features include screen understanding, complex image prompts, and a six-month free trial of Google AI Pro bundled with the devices.
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