VNExpress-July 15
Vietnam has emerged as Southeast Asia’s biggest user of Google’s Gemini for learning, with more than 160,000 students using its exam preparation features every month and academic-related prompts making up the largest share of AI queries in the region. Google’s Southeast Asia Gemini usage report, released on July 14, found that 17% of prompts submitted by users in Vietnam are related to education, well above the regional average of 11%, making the country the region’s leading adopter of AI for academic purposes. The report also showed that over 160,000 students use Gemini Canvas, Google’s AI-powered study assistant, each month to prepare for exams. Teachers, meanwhile, generate around 55,000 education-related prompts every day. Dang Thanh Nga, a Google Student Ambassador, said features such as Gemini Canvas help simplify difficult math concepts and troubleshoot programming code whenever she encounters obstacles. “It is an effective way to solve problems and organize information, but critical thinking and the final polished output still have to come from us. [The tool] simply makes the learning process faster, more efficient, and better organized.” Vietnam also ranks first in Southeast Asia for using native language prompts on Gemini. About 89% of prompts from Vietnamese users are written in Vietnamese, compared with 87% in Thailand and 84% in Indonesia. Vietnam also ranks among the leading countries for coding support and mathematical reasoning requests, with 4% of prompts related to programming and 5% to mathematics. Some 32% of prompts from Vietnam are sent via desktop, the second highest in the region after Singapore. Google reports that the relatively high desktop usage rate reflects strong demand among Vietnamese users for in-depth technical work that requires focus. This is the first time Google has published a report on Gemini AI usage in the region covering Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
Gemini is Google’s fastest-growing app in the region, with active users more than doubling over the past year. It is also the most searched AI assistant in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand. Read more at:
