David Pearce

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14,416 appearances 53 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 3d ago

David Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Vergecast · Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam · 14 Aug 2026 podcast

OpenAI kind of buried in a blog post that ChatGPT had hit a billion users. voice-verified

But I went, found like reported that out, managed to confirm that, like, yes, they have in fact hit a billion users. voice-verified

Uh this has started kind of a firestorm all over the internet because uh does it does it make like emotional sense to you that a billion people use Gemini every month? voice-verified

Like does it does it feel popular in that sense? voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

I mean that's definitely true, but I think voice-verified

People's immediate reaction to this, which I think is l largely correct and also just really interesting, was there is no way Gemini is as popular as ChatGPT. voice-verified

It's just impossible. voice-verified

Even their numbers are different. voice-verified

Google reported a billion monthly users. voice-verified

Uh Chat GPT apparently hit that number a while ago. voice-verified

They wouldn't tell me more specifically than a while ago, uh, but they hit a million a billion weekly users. voice-verified

a couple of weeks ago in July. voice-verified

So monthly versus weekly is is meaningful, but I would say, historically speaking, not like orders of magnitude different necessarily. voice-verified

Um but voice-verified

It just it feels wrong to people in this space that a billion people use both of these products. voice-verified

And so everybody starts uh essentially accusing Google of cheating. voice-verified

Uh there's this because like a lot of these people come from one one way you might use Gemini is by owning an Android phone, right? voice-verified

Like if you have a recent Android phone, you have used Gemini by accident. voice-verified

It just happens. voice-verified

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