Google has reported Gemini having over 650 million active monthly users and ChatGPT reportedly has over 800 million.
The two giants adoption rates alone shows how big of the deal AI is. The world is welcoming it well as a tool.
Microsoft’s AI Diffusion Report reveals over 1.2 billion people now use AI globally, the fastest tech adoption in human history.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) ranks number one when it comes to AI adoption. According to Microsoft’s report, about 59.4% of the UAE’s working-age population now uses AI tools such as Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Midjourney on a daily basis. Singapore, which ranks second just above Norway and Ireland, has a 58.6% AI adoption rate among its population.
Microsoft credits the growing AI adoption trend across countries to years of strategic investment in digital infrastructure, education, and AI policy frameworks.
Times Of AI | October 31, 2025
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I think that it's quite impressive how fast AI adoption has been. Over the next 5 years or so, the technology should have reached over 4 billion users.
It took over 20 years for the internet to reach 1 billion users. Cryptocurrency is now over 17 years and has yet to reach a billion users.
Facebook did it in eight. To date, no technology, product or service has achieved that milestone in a quicker timeframe than AI.
The world clearly recognizes the value of AI. People clearly value what it can do. Sure, many are just using it to cheat their way through school or publish slop content, but I believe that if we were to look through the percentages, it likely wouldn't sum up to as much as we expect.
AI, generative AI specifically, is general purpose, people are using it for all sorts of things and it is clearly serving them way for this number to grow steadily.
As AI becomes embedded in various products, is won't be long before everyone uses the technology. Smart phones alone will drive up adoption to the next billion users in no time.
I think we should be really looking forward to see how this changes society over the next decade. If it improves lives, maybe improves learning as I've recently wrote on its potential to be a great system to improve literacy in society, or maybe it will lead to more people becoming builders in various capacity, and accelerating the advancement of our world.
As the models get better and people discover more ways to draw value from them, developments across the globe could blow through the roof.
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