Editor’s note: Below is an edited transcript of Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s remarks at Google I/O 2026, adapted to include more of what was announced on stage. See all the announcements in our collection.
It’s been an extraordinary year since our last I/O, a period of relentless shipping, technology advances and hyper progress. We’re now in the part of the AI cycle where people want to see the value in the products they use every day. We’ve been really focused on that, and you’ll see that in the products and features we’re announcing today at I/O.
Ten years since we pivoted the company to be AI-first, we still see AI as the most profound way to advance our mission and improve people’s lives at scale. That’s why we’ve been taking a differentiated, full-stack approach to AI innovation, from our custom silicon and secure foundation, to our world-class research and models, to our products and platforms that touch billions of people. This approach enables us to iterate and innovate faster in ways that are lighting up every part of the company.
What’s incredible is how people are using AI, whether it’s students prepping for final exams with the Gemini app, musicians and artists using generative AI models like Lyria and Veo as part of their creative flow, or developers coding and bringing their ideas to life.
AI momentum across the full stack
These stories of how people are using AI are the best measure of progress. To understand the scale at which people are adopting AI, there is another great proxy — tokens, the fundamental units of data our models process, many representing a problem being solved.
Two years ago, we were processing 9.7 trillion tokens a month across our surfaces — a huge number. Last year at I/O, that grew to roughly 480 trillion tokens. Fast forward to today, that number jumped 7x to over 3.2 quadrillion per month.
It tells an important story about our products and how others are building as well — especially developers and enterprises:
- Over 8.5 million developers are now building new apps and experiences with our models monthly.
- Our model APIs are now processing roughly 19 billion tokens per minute.
- Over the past 12 months, over 375 Google Cloud customers each processed more than one trillion tokens, representing incredible demand for AI from across industries.
Momentum with our products
Today we have 13 products with over a billion users each. Five of those have more than 3 billion users.
Our Gemini models are a big reason more people are using our products, and why they’re using our products more.
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