PYMNTS.com January 20, 2026

Google has reportedly seen a surge in sales of its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) models.

This uptick indicates an improvement in the quality of those models, according to Seeking Alpha, which itself cited a paywalled report by The Information Tuesday (Jan. 20).

This could add more revenue from Google Cloud’s core business of server sales, as the money customers shell out for AI often leads to more spending on other Google products, the report added, citing a source with knowledge of Google’s sales.

The report notes that Google sells access to its AI models via Google Cloud via an application programming interface (API). Requests sent to the Gemini API more than doubled between March and August of last year, the...

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