Google’s Gemini is gaining but OpenAI’s ChatGPT is still the AI chatbot leader

Following Alphabet’s stellar earnings report Wednesday, analysts were quick to declare that the Google parent had blossomed from an AI laggard into a leader. The company posted strong revenue and profit growth, driven in part by heavy investment in artificial intelligence, and noted that its Gemini app had grown to more than 750 million monthly active users.

Still, usage data suggests Gemini remains far behind the market leader — at least as far as usage.

While Gemini is growing faster than OpenAI’s ChatGPT — up 19% month over month versus 4% — it still trails by a wide margin in overall usage. In January, Gemini logged more than 2 billion global visits, according to new data from Similarweb, less than half of ChatGPT’s 5.7 billion.