“AI Overviews will begin rolling out to everyone in the U.S. starting today, with more countries soon. By the end of the year, AI Overviews will come to over a billion people in Google Search.”

Sundar PichaiCEO

CEO, Google and Alphabet

Hit ahead of schedule: on Alphabet's Q3 2024 earnings call (October 29, 2024) Pichai said AI Overviews was expanding to over 100 new countries and 'will now reach more than 1 billion users on a monthly basis.' Usage kept climbing to 1.5 billion by May 2025 and 2 billion by mid-2025.