AI Service Mainstream Adoption and Enterprise Expansion Accelerate

API/서비스 | Thu Aug 13 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) | 6 sources

ChatGPT and Gemini surpassed 1 billion users while AI services expanded into advertising, CRM, and newsrooms.

Analysis

[Google Gemini] surpassed 1 billion monthly users ^[5][2]

• Became the 14th Google product to reach 1 billion users
• Grew rapidly from 950 million at the time of Q2 2026 earnings
• Secured more than 100 million iOS users
• 63% of users engage via voice features
• Generates more than 150 million images daily

[OpenAI ChatGPT] reached 1 billion weekly users ^[2]

• Officially announced on August 6 after surpassing 1 billion monthly users around June
• Reached 1 billion weekly active users as of July
• Growth slowed compared to 900 million weekly users in February
• Remains a much larger platform than Gemini
• but the gap is narrowing

[Google Ads & Analytics] expanded AI agent features for marketing ^[1]

• Enhanced Ask Advisor in-product AI agent
• Homepage AI Overviews provide real-time insight summaries
• Introduced Dashboards that visualize data via text prompts
• Added benchmarking that compares against anonymized industry averages
• Users can opt in to phone/email alerts to receive smart summaries

[Thrive Holdings] raised $2 billion to expand enterprise AI ^[3]

• Reached a $12 billion valuation with participation from SoftBank
• D1 Capital
• and Altimeter
• OpenAI took an equity stake and seconded employees in December 2025
• Acquired more than 70 traditional companies including accounting and IT firms to deploy AI
• TaxAI processed more than 7
• 000 tax filings with 98% accuracy
• Plans to launch a new platform for physical infrastructure regulatory services

[Mesh (Automattic)] launched personal CRM app for Android ^[4]

• Includes network visualization and contact reminder features
• Optimized for Android platform features such as split screen and popup view
• Nexus AI early access supports natural language search of contacts
• Interoperates with messaging app Beeper
• Subscription-based operation prohibits use of personal data for advertising

[RuntimeWire] broke news with an AI agent-based newsroom ^[6]

• Published OpenAI's Black Hat conference announcement 3 hours ahead of WIRED
• AI agents handle reporting
• editing
• and publishing without human journalists
• Published approximately 2
• 000 articles since launching in May
• Daily operating cost of approximately $100
• AI editors automatically publish low-legal-risk articles without prior review

Sources

• [1] Evolve your marketing with new AI tools - Google AI Blog
• [2] ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users - The Verge AI
• [3] OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise - TechCrunch AI
• [4] Mesh, Automattic’s CRM for everyone, comes to Android - TechCrunch AI
• [5] Google’s Gemini app surges to 1 billion users - TechCrunch AI
• [6] Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News - Wired AI