US-based technology giant Google, backed by Alphabet Inc., said more than 8.5 million developers are now building applications and experiences each month using its artificial intelligence (AI) models, CEO Sundar Pichai said.
Speaking about the company’s AI infrastructure investments, Pichai said Google expects its capital expenditure to reach nearly $190 billion this year, with a major portion allocated to AI data centres, custom silicon and model training.
He said demand across Google’s AI ecosystem continues to rise among developers, enterprises and consumers.
According to the California-headquartered company, its model APIs are currently processing nearly 19 billion tokens per minute. More than 375 Google Cloud customers processed over one trillion tokens each during the past year.
Pichai also highlighted growing adoption of the company’s AI products. He said the Gemini app has crossed 900 million monthly active users, more than doubling from last year. Google’s AI-powered search tools are also witnessing strong traction, with AI Overviews reaching over 2.5 billion monthly users and AI Mode surpassing one billion monthly active users.
The company unveiled several new AI tools and upgrades, including Gemini 3.5 Flash, a faster AI model focused on coding and workflow applications, and Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent designed to perform tasks on behalf of users.
Google also introduced updates to its AI infrastructure, including its latest generation of Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), aimed at enabling faster AI training and inference at scale.
Pichai reiterated Google’s commitment to its AI-first strategy, describing artificial intelligence as a transformative technology that can help advance the company’s mission and improve lives globally.
Among the new product announcements, Google introduced ‘Ask YouTube’, an AI-powered feature that helps users identify relevant moments in videos through conversational queries, and ‘Docs Live’, which enables users to create and organise documents using voice prompts.
The company also expanded its AI transparency initiatives through SynthID, its watermarking technology for AI-generated content. Google said several companies, including OpenAI, Kakao and ElevenLabs, are adopting the technology to help verify AI-generated images, videos and audio.
(With IANS Inputs)
