Sundar Pichai says Google is now processing 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, up from 480T tokens per month a year ago and 9.7T tokens per month two years ago (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Google disclosed a massive jump in AI token processing, underscoring Gemini usage growth and infrastructure scale.

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<a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/google-ai-youtube-gemini"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260519/i35.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260519/p35#a260519p35" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Ina Fried / <a href="https://www.axios.com/">Axios</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/google-ai-youtube-gemini">Sundar Pichai says Google is now processing 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, up from 480T tokens per month a year ago and 9.7T tokens per month two years ago</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Google used its I/O developer conference on Tuesday to showcase how deeply it plans to embed AI across its products &hellip; </p>