Google Gets Google Assistant On One Billion Devices, Ten Times The Amazon Alexa’s Installed Base

The Google launched "Google Assistant" in 2016 on the Google Pixel phone and since then has spread to millions of devices, I meant billion of devices.
These devices include a range of smart speakers like the Google Home line and third-party home speaker devices from JBL, Sony, Panasonic, LG, and countless others. Joining these are the smart displays like the Google Home Hub and third-party offerings from Lenovo, JBL, and LG.
Android Auto is a mobile app developed by Google to mirror features from an Android device to a car's compatible in-dash information and entertainment head unit or to a dashcam. With a phone running Android Auto,  you can have access to the Assistant from your car's infotainment screen.
When you done with all those and get home, the is Google Assistant for TVs, there's both Sony and LG displays with Android TV and the Assistant built in, set-top boxes from Nvidia and Xiaomi, and even a plan for smart soundbars. For laptops, if they are Chromium / Chrome OS based, they all have access to the Google Assistant. If your watch is a Wear OS device, you can get the Assistant on your watch, and it's even comes on some Nest cameras.

But the biggest chunk of Google Assistant rest on Android phones. You can have it also on your iOS phoen as you can freely download the Google Assistant app on iOS. On Android the Assistant comes built into the main Google app. This app is part of the "Google Play" Android app bundle, so it's included in the box in pretty much every Android phone, save for those sold in China.

Google claims in a blog post that "active users of the Google Assistant grew 4 times over the past year" and that its distribution jumped from 14 countries in eight languages in 2017 to 80 countries in 30 languages in 2018.
When it comes to smart home devices, Amazon still shines. According to Google, the number of different smart home devices Google Assistant supports "10,000 smart home devices from over 1,600 popular brands," Then Amazon just announced that currently there are 28,000 Alexa-compatible smart home devices from 4,500 different manufacturers.