Gemini

source

closed

self-host

none

license

proprietary(SaaS app)

Proprietary, SaaS-only consumer app: no source, no self-hosting. The closed counterpart to the open chat interfaces in this category.

• https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/ recorded 2026-09-29

  Google's Gemini 3.5 announcement, which says the model reaches people "For everyone via the Gemini app and AI Mode in" Google Search.

• https://gemini.google/about/ recorded 2026-09-29

  Gemini product page listing hosted plans ("Via Google Workspace") and features such as "Image generation and editing". Searched the body for self-host, on-prem, open source, open-source and proprietary: none, so it offers no source release, self-hosted build or open license.

• https://gemini.google/overview/ recorded 2026-09-29

  Gemini's overview page describes the app as "Gemini is an interface to a multimodal LLM (handling text, audio, images and more)." Searched the body for self-host, on-prem, open source, open-source and proprietary: none, so it offers no source release, self-hosted build or open license.

Google's CEO stated on an earnings call that the Gemini app's monthly active users have passed the mass-market threshold, a first-party disclosure rather than a third-party estimate. The count is for the Gemini app itself; Search's separate AI Overviews surface, which reaches many more people, is not included in it.

• https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/04/googles-gemini-app-has-surpassed-750m-monthly-active-users/ recorded 2026-09-29

  TechCrunch report on Alphabet's Q4 2025 earnings, quoting Pichai: "the Gemini App has grown to over 750 million monthly active users."

A frontier consumer chat product for this category: full multimodal support (Live voice, image generation), Search grounding, Workspace integration, extensions and enterprise tiers. It sets the category bar alongside ChatGPT.

• https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/ recorded 2026-09-29

  Gemini 3.5 announcement: 3.5 Flash is the default model for the Gemini app and AI Mode, and "Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows."

• https://gemini.google/about/ recorded 2026-09-29

  Gemini product page listing "Image generation and editing" and a feature titled "Go Live With Gemini": "Gemini Live is now built into your chat, so you can task switch seamlessly between talking and typing."

• https://gemini.google/overview/ recorded 2026-09-29

  Gemini overview page, which mentions "controls that allow you to turn on/off access to extensions" such as Workspace, Maps and YouTube.

• https://gemini.google/subscriptions/ recorded 2026-09-29

  Google AI plans page: "Get access to the best of Google AI including Gemini 3.1 Pro, video generation with Veo 3.1, Deep Research, and much more."