ChatGPT rivals like Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok, and, to a lesser extent, Meta AI, are closing the hole to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s widespread AI chatbot, in accordance with a brand new report targeted on the buyer AI panorama from enterprise agency Andreessen Horowitz.
The report, in its fifth iteration, showcases two and a half years of knowledge about shoppers’ evolving use of AI merchandise.
And for the fifth time, 14 firms appeared on the listing of prime AI merchandise: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Poe, Character AI, Midjourney, Leonardo, Veed, Cutout, ElevenLabs, Photoroom, Gamma, QuillBot, Civitai, and Hugging Face.
The businesses symbolize a cross part of how shoppers are utilizing AI: for basic help, companionship, picture and video enhancing, voice technology, productiveness, and mannequin internet hosting.
5 different firms appeared on all however the first report, the agency notes, together with Claude, DeepAI, Janitor AI, Pixelcut, and Suno, representing basic AI use, companionship, picture enhancing, and music technology.
For the primary time within the collection of stories, Google gained 4 spots on the listing of the highest generative AI client net merchandise with entries for Gemini, AI Studio, NotebookLM, and Google Labs. These merchandise now have their very own separate domains, permitting their development to be tracked individually from each other.
Andreessen Horowitz says its report depends on knowledge from third-party market intelligence companies, together with Similarweb, for net merchandise and Sensor Tower for cellular app knowledge.
Of word, No. 2 app Gemini is closing the hole to No. 1 app ChatGPT on cellular gadgets, however with virtually half as many month-to-month energetic customers. Not surprisingly, Gemini’s AI know-how sees stronger adoption on Android, with almost 90% of the month-to-month energetic person base. On the net, Gemini additionally got here in second place behind ChatGPT, with roughly 12% of ChatGPT’s visits.
The corporate’s AI Studio, a developer-oriented sandbox for constructing with Gemini fashions, entered the highest 10 listing of AI net merchandise, sitting within the tenth spot; NotebookLM was No. 13. Google Labs, a vacation spot for Google’s AI experiments (e.g., Circulate, Undertaking Mariner, and Doppl), ranked at No. 39.
The report signifies that Meta AI and Grok are additionally chasing the highest AI app, ChatGPT.
Grok ranked fourth on the internet and No. 23 on cellular. That is fast development, on condition that Grok went from having no stand-alone app on the finish of 2024 (it was first launched on X) to now, with upward of 20 million month-to-month energetic customers. In July 2025, Grok additionally climbed almost 40% when Grok 4 was launched.
Meta’s basic assistant ranked No. 46 on the internet — the identical as in March — nevertheless it didn’t make the listing of prime cellular AI apps. Partially, it was hampered by the information that Meta AI was sharing some customers’ posts publicly on the internet with out their knowledgeable consent.
DeepSeek and Claude additionally noticed their development flatten on cellular, with the previous falling off its peak by 22%. On the net, DeepSeek noticed a fair sharper drop-off, down greater than 40% from its peak in February 2025. Perplexity and Claude, nonetheless, continued to develop.
Different Chinese language AI makers additionally made the highest 20 on the internet, together with No. 9 Quark, Alibaba’s AI assistant (No. 47 on the cellular listing); No. 12 Doubao, ByteDance’s basic LLM product (No. 4 on cellular); and No. 17 Kimi, a chatbot from Moonshot AI. Every of those has a Chinese language web site and sees 75% of its site visitors coming from China.
Seven extra firms on the internet listing had been developed in China however exported their AI tech globally: DeepSeek, Hailuo, Kling, SeaArt, Cutout Professional, Manus, and Monica.
On cellular, 22 of the 50 prime apps had been developed in China, however solely three had been primarily utilized in China. High gamers right here embrace Meitu (Photograph & Video Editor, BeautyPlus, BeautyCam, Wink, and Airbrush), ByteDance (Doubao and Cici), Gauth, and Hypic.
Vibe-coding startups Lovable and Replit each debuted on the principle listing this time, having not made the minimize on a16z’s listing revealed again in March of this 12 months. (Word that web sites constructed and revealed through Replit and through Lovable with out customized domains seem underneath site visitors for replit.app and lovable.app, respectively, serving to them acquire traction.)
Andreessen Horowitz additionally took time to name out AI apps that had been getting ready to making the listing of prime AI apps, together with PixAI, Bolt, Blackbox AI, Clipchamp, and Getliner on the internet and Talkie, Seekee, Photograph AI, AI Mirror, and Arvin on cellular.
The agency notes that the cellular listing on this month’s report already options extra newcomers (14) than earlier than, as each app shops have lengthy since cracked down on ChatGPT copycats and clones, permitting for extra unique apps to seek out their footing.
