Google’s AI Overviews in Search now have “1.5 billion users per month,” CEO Sundar Pichai said in a statement as part of Alphabet’s Q1 2025 earnings.
Google started to widely roll out AI Overviews last May. Despite some awkward suggestions found shortly after their launch, the company has continued to expand upon the tool with updates, showing AI Overviews for more types of queries, and even officially adding ads as it aims to compete with other AI-powered search tools like ChatGPT Search and Perplexity.
AI Overviews are just one of many AI tools the company is working on; in Q1, it rolled out features like the Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental AI model, a feature that lets you make AI podcasts from Gemini’s Deep Research tool, and the Gemini-powered ability for Google Maps to scan screenshots to help you plan trips.
Google also announced in March that it would be officially dumping Assistant for Gemini on mobile “over the coming months,” and on today’s earnings call, Pichai said that “tablets, cars, and devices that connect to your phones such as headphones and watches,” would be moved over to Gemini later this year.
On the hardware front in Q1, Google announced the Pixel 9A, though it didn’t launch the phone until April 10th due to a “component quality issue.”
During Q1, Google earned $90.2 billion in revenue, a 12 percent increase year-over-year. In its earnings release, Pichai also highlighted that the company passed 270 million subscriptions, a figure that’s “driven by YouTube and Google One.”
One thing looming over Google right now, however, is the possibility that it will be broken up due to major losses in antitrust cases brought against the company by the US Department of Justice. The remedies trial following the ruling that Google is a monopoly in search is happening now, while Google lost its ad tech monopoly case in a ruling announced last week.
The company’s earnings call kicked off at 4:30PM ET.
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