Google's Gemini Report: Southeast Asia 2026 revealed that Gemini adoption in the region broke records and was the fastest compared to other Google apps. Of Gemini's 900 million monthly active users globally, users under 25 years old are the main drivers (40%) of adoption in Southeast Asia. Almost 70% of prompts in Southeast Asia are sent using the native language of each country, with Vietnam reaching 89%, Thailand 87%, and Indonesia 84%. Based on the Southeast Asia Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (SEA-HELM) from AI Singapore, Gemini is the large language model with the best performance for Southeast Asian languages. About 75% of demand to Gemini comes from mobile devices, and more than 40% of prompts are sent using a combination of voice, photos, and videos. More than 10% only use voice through features like Gemini Live. About 40% of incoming queries ask AI to generate new content. Over the past year, users in Southeast Asia generated around 5 billion images using the Nano Banana model and almost 1 million songs through the Lyria 3 music maker model.