New Delhi, July 24 -- NEW YORK - Sundar Pichai had a number to offer and a product name to go with it. Speaking at Google's second-quarter earnings call, the chief executive confirmed that Gemini now counts nearly 950 million monthly active users - a figure that has tripled year-on-year - and announced that Gemini Spark, the company's personalized AI agent, is now available in the United States and internationally. The milestone puts Gemini in the company of Google Search, Maps, and YouTube as one of the small group of products the company has built to near-billion-user scale.

a version of Gemini that learns from a user's calendar, preferences, and existing Google product history and acts on that information without waiting to be asked. ...