Google And Grok Are Catching Up To Chatgpt, Says A16z’s Latest Ai Report

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ChatGPT rivals for illustration Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok, and, to a lesser extent, Meta AI, are closing nan spread to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s celebrated AI chatbot, according to a caller study focused connected nan user AI landscape from task patient Andressen Horowitz.

The report, successful its 5th iteration, showcases 2 and a half years of information astir consumers’ evolving usage of AI products.

And for nan 5th time, 14 companies appeared connected nan database of apical AI products: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Poe, Character AI, Midjourney, Leonardo, Veed, Cutout, Eleven Labs, Photoroom, Gamma, Quillbot, Civitai, and HuggingFace.

AI each prima companies connected a world map

The companies correspond a transverse conception of really consumers are utilizing AI: for wide assistance, companionship, image and video editing, sound generation, productivity, and exemplary hosting.

Five different companies appeared connected each but nan first report, nan patient notes, including Claude, DeepAI, JanitorAI, Pixelcut, and Suno, representing wide AI use, companionship, image editing, and euphony generation.

For nan first clip successful nan bid of reports, Google gained 4 spots connected nan database of nan apical gen AI user web products pinch entries for Gemini, AI Studio, NotebookLM, and Google Labs. These products now person their ain abstracted domains, allowing their maturation to beryllium tracked separately from 1 another.

a16z says its study relies connected information from third-party marketplace intelligence firms, including Similarweb for web products and Sensor Tower for mobile app data.

general LMM adjunct monthly web visits, excluding gemini and chatgpt

Of note, No. 2 app Gemini is closing nan spread to No. 1 app ChatGPT connected mobile devices, but pinch almost half arsenic galore monthly progressive users. Not surprisingly, Gemini’s AI exertion sees stronger take connected Android, pinch astir 90% of nan monthly progressive personification base. On nan web, Gemini besides came successful 2nd spot down ChatGPT, pinch astir 12% of ChatGPT’s visits.

The company’s AI Studio, a developer-oriented sandbox for building pinch Gemini models, entered nan apical 10 database of AI web products successful nan 10th spot; NotebookLM was No. 13. Google Labs, a destination for Google’s AI experiments (like Flow, Project Mariner, and Doppl), classed astatine No. 39.

The study indicates that Meta AI and Grok are besides chasing nan apical AI app, ChatGPT.

Grok classed 4th connected nan web and No. 23 connected mobile. This is speedy growth, fixed that Grok went from having nary standalone app astatine nan extremity of 2024 (it was first launched connected X) to now, upwards of 20 cardinal monthly progressive users. In July 2025, Grok besides climbed astir 40% erstwhile Grok 4 was released.

Meta’s wide adjunct classed No. 46 connected nan web — nan aforesaid arsenic successful March — but it didn’t make nan database of apical mobile AI apps. In part, it was hampered by nan news that Meta AI was sharing immoderate users’ posts publicly connected nan web without their informed consent.

DeepSeek and Claude besides saw their maturation flatten connected mobile, pinch nan erstwhile falling disconnected its peak by 22%. On nan web, DeepSeek saw an moreover sharper drop-off, down much than 40% from its highest successful February 2025. Perplexity and Claude, however, continued to grow.

Other Chinese AI makers besides made nan apical 20 connected nan web, including No. 9 Quark, Alibaba’s AI adjunct (No. 47 connected nan mobile list); No. 12 Doubao, ByteDance’s wide LLM merchandise (No. 4 connected mobile); and No. 17 Kimi, a chatbot from Moonshot AI. Each of these has a Chinese website and sees 75% of its postulation coming from China.

Seven further companies connected nan web database were developed successful China, but exported their AI tech globally: DeepSeek, Hailuo, Kling, SeaArt, Cutout Pro, Manus, and Monica.

On mobile, 22 of nan 50 apical apps were developed successful China, but only 3 were chiefly utilized successful China. Top players present see Meitu (Photo & Video Editor, BeautyPlus, BeautyCam, Wink, and Airbrush), ByteDance (Doubao and Cici), Gauth, and Hypic.

Vibe-coding startups Lovable and Replit some debuted connected nan main database this time, having not made nan trim connected a16z’s database published backmost successful March of this year. (Note that websites built and published via Replit and via Lovable without civilization domains look nether postulation for replit.app and lovable.app, respectively, helping them summation traction.)

a16z besides took clip to telephone retired AI apps that were connected nan brink of making nan database of apical AI apps, including PixAI, bolt, Blackbox AI, Clipchamp, and Getliner connected nan web and Talkie, Seekee, Photo AI, AI Mirror, and Arvin connected mobile.

The patient notes that nan mobile database successful this month’s study already features much newcomers (14) than before, arsenic some app stores person agelong since cracked down connected ChatGPT copycats and clones, allowing for much original apps to find their footing.