Google's AI chatbot Gemini currently has around 350 million active users, according to figures published by Google as part of a court hearing on its own search dominance. This puts it well behind OpenAI's ChatGPT, which has at least 500 million weekly users according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. However, the Gemini figures should be viewed with caution, as Google likely has an interest in presenting itself as smaller. The figures presumably only account for the Gemini chatbot app, while users actually interact with Gemini in many places, such as Google's AI search or by voice input on Android devices. With the new Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google has also caught up in terms of technology and currently has the most powerful AI model on the market.
Mozilla’s latest experiment in Firefox Labs introduces a feature called Link Preview. With this feature enabled, holding down Shift and Alt while hovering over any link brings up a preview card. The card displays the page title, a short description, an image, estimated reading time, and three automatically generated bullet points that summarize the content. Instead of sending your browsing data to the cloud, Firefox uses the SmolLM2-360M language model from Hugging Face to generate these previews. The company has plans to improve language support, boost the speed and quality of the previews, and is even considering bringing the feature to Android in the future. Link Preview is optional and can be enabled through Firefox Labs.
