Singapore leads Southeast Asia in per capita adoption of Google’s Gemini AI platform and ranks first globally by the same measure, while Vietnam dominates the region in mathematical reasoning, coding, and AI-assisted education.
Google revealed the information in its Gemini Report: Southeast Asia 2026. The report, based on Google internal data from January to March 2026, showed that Singapore users utilize to the platform approximately 10 times per day for professional and productivity tasks. Vietnamese users submit the highest share of technical and academic prompts in Southeast Asia.
On weekdays, professional, academic, and coding-related prompts overtake creative and casual use, the report finds. Sixty percent of prompts in Singapore originate from desktop computers, as users rely on Gemini for productivity-intensive tasks.
The report notes this sets Singapore apart from the otherwise mobile-first pattern seen across the rest of Southeast Asia. Source data covers Google internal data for Singapore from January to March 2026, with adoption figures drawn from December 2025 and World Bank population estimates.
Vietnam, by contrast, leads the region in mathematical reasoning and coding requests. Vietnamese users are the region’s most frequent users of Gemini’s mathematical capabilities at 5 percent of all prompts, and the second most frequent users of coding tasks at 4 percent of all prompts.
As many as 32 percent of prompts from Vietnam are also sent from desktop computers. Vietnam further ranks first in Southeast Asia by share of prompts in the academic user journey at 17 percent, with more than 160,000 students using Gemini Canvas for exam preparation monthly and educators submitting more than 55,000 teaching-related requests on a typical day.
Malaysia presents a distinct multilingual pattern. While the majority of Malaysian users engage with Gemini in English, the share of Malay-language prompts more than doubled in early 2026 compared to a year earlier, according to Google internal data. The report finds that Malay-language prompts are more common for creative and academic tasks, while English remains more prevalent for professional work and coding.
One in five Malaysian users asks Gemini to generate images, the highest rate in Southeast Asia, with the report noting particular interest in image generation since the launch of Nano Banana image generation capabilities in August 2025.
Across the region, seven in ten Gemini prompts are submitted in native languages. Native-language use is highest in Vietnam at 89 percent, followed by Thailand at 87 percent and Indonesia at 84 percent. Users in Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore are more likely to use Gemini in English.
The country-level breakdown of prompt categories shows distinct usage patterns: Indonesia’s prompts are led by creative tasks at 32 percent; Malaysia by daily life and conversations at 29 percent; the Philippines splits evenly between creative and daily life at 24 percent each.
Singapore has the highest coding share at 15 percent and professional use at 12 percent; Thailand’s usage is concentrated in daily life and conversations at 32 percent; and Vietnam’s distribution is led by daily life and conversations at 29 percent, with academic and creative prompts each at 17 percent.
Commenting on the report, Marc Woo, Managing Director, Vietnam, Google Asia Pacific, said Vietnam has emerged as a regional leader in coding and math. Developers, engineers, and students are leveraging Gemini to write code, debug, and tackle advanced technical challenges at a scale unmatched in the region.
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