Google has been trying to play catch-up to OpenAI in generative artificial intelligence. It appears to finally be gaining ground with users.

The company's Gemini app took the top spot among free apps on Apple's App Store this week, leapfrogging ChatGPT, which kickstarted the generative AI boom almost three years ago.

Google's Gemini AI model has seen some recent updates that have lured new users. Last month, Google launched an updated version of its "Flash" AI model, called 2.5 Flash Image, which has a new image editing feature called Nano Banana. The app allows users to blend multiple photos together and use prompts to create things such as digital figurines of photos that a user uploads.

The product helped bring in 13 million new users to the Gemini app in four d

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