The scale of AI is simply cosmic!

? Massive use of artificial intelligence tools: numbers that amaze

Recently, in some chat, someone asked: “Is AI really being used on a massive scale?” And surprisingly, there are concrete numbers from Google and OpenAI — and they are absolutely cosmic.

Google
Google’s SEO recently stated that 1.3 quadrillion tokens per month pass through all of their AI services. To understand the scale: that’s 1.3 thousand trillion tokens, and one token is roughly equal to 0.75 of a word (in English; for other languages, efficiency is slightly lower). In other words — about 1000 trillion words are processed monthly by models in Google’s data centers.

And it’s worth noting that Google integrates AI everywhere — in all its popular apps used by billions of people: Search, Maps, YouTube, chatbots, and enterprise tools. That’s why their number looks much higher.

OpenAI

According to Sam Altman:

• 800 million active ChatGPT users who use it at least once a week.
• 6 billion tokens per minute through the API — that is, third-party applications connected to the model. Over a month, this equals 259,200 billion tokens — and that’s only via the API, without counting direct ChatGPT usage.

What this means in practice

• The scale of investments in data centers is fully justified: demand is huge and growing incredibly fast.
• AI usage is increasing not only due to popularity growth but also due to model complexity — as they’ve begun to “reason,” with agents, multitasking scenarios, and automation emerging.
  
  
• Trying to ignore this trend or treat AI as a toy no longer makes sense: the technology is deeply integrated into everyday work, analytics, communications, and business processes.

? Conclusion
These numbers show how rapidly AI is becoming an integral part of the digital economy. It’s not just a trendy technology — it’s the new infrastructure for billions of users and companies around the world.

What do you think? Those numbers are truly out of this world, aren’t they?