# I/O 2026

Google’s Gemini Juggernaut: Nine Hundred Million Users and the New AI Hegemony

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced at the 2026 I/O Conference that Gemini has reached 900 million monthly active users. This massive growth, coupled with a sevenfold increase in daily AI requests, has fueled a 25% rise in Alphabet's stock price and reaffirmed the company's dominance in the AI sector.