In short
- Chatgpt still leads, but Google’s Gemini and Musk’s Grok close quickly, according to the top 100 AI apps from Andreessen Horowitz.
- The AI app market stabilizes – Feer newcomers on web, more originality on mobile.
- The AI giants of China and newcomers “Brink List” show the next wave of global challengers.
For more than a year, OpenAi’s Chatgpt has been the undisputed heavyweight of the generative AI of consumers.
But according to the latter “Top 100 Gen ai Consumer Apps” report of venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz, that analyzes AI user data two and a half years, The challengers finally start to close the gap. Google’s Twin and Elon Musk’s Grain Climbing in the charts and signal that rivals come in front of the crown of OpenAi.
That said, The Gen AI ecosystem shows signs of stabilization. The web list saw 11 newcomers compared to 17 in March 2025, which indicates less Churn. The market for mobile apps, however, saw 14 new entries, partly due to app stores that make the performance on “Chatgpt copycats”, make room for more original apps.
The report also seems to be at odds somewhat with an analysis of the comparable web in June that showed that the GPT of OpenAi was eating the web, with around 5.5 billion visits per month.
The big takeaway restaurants
That can of course be explained by how quickly the AI landscape shifts. Google has made important movements, with four products that come on the web list for the first time. Gemini, its general LLM assistant, is now in second place on the internet and records around 12% of Chatgpt’s web visits.
Other remarkable Google products are AI Studio (developer-oriented, top 10 web) and NotebookLM (#13 web), which has undergone a steady growth. On Mobile, Gemini is also #2, with a strong Android use (almost 90% of MAUs).
While Chatgpt still leads among General LLM assistants, Google, Xai and Meta close the gap.
Xs Grok jumped to 2024 to 20 million Maus at the end of 2024, rank #4 on web and #23 on Mobile. This increase was fed by the release of grok 4-with an improved reasoning, real-time search and toolintegration and the introduction of AI Companion Avatars. However, Meta AI has seen more modest growth, rank #46 on the web list and missing the mobile Cutoff. Deepseek and Claude have squeezed the mobile use flat, while confusing continues to grow.
The AI world naturally includes considerably more users than those who use the dominant platforms in the west. Chinese AI apps win a considerable traction worldwide. Three China service companies-quark (#9 web,#47 mobile), Doubao (#12 web,#4 mobile) and Kimi (#17 web)-are in the web top 20, largely because China is the largest market and restrictions on non-Chinese LLMs.
In addition, a substantial part of the web list and 22 of the top 50 mobile apps – especially in photo/video editing, where MEUTRY contributes five submissions – are being developed in China and are now “exported” worldwide. Chinese video models in particular show an advantage, possibly due to more research focus and fewer IP regulations.
Platforms “vibe coding” generate strong user involvement and income retention. Lovable and Replit debuted on the main list, while Bolt, formerly a newcomer, is now on the “Brink list”. These platforms also stimulate traffic for other AI products and infrastructure providers such as Supabase.
The report, now in his fifth edition, remains ‘all-stars’ ointments. Fourteen companies have consistently appeared in all five editions of the Web Top 50 and earn “All -Star” status. These include general help (chatgpt, perplexity, poe), company (character ai), image generation (midjourney, leonardo), editing (cattle, recess), speech generation (eleven laboratories), productivity (photoroma, gamma, quillbot). These All-Stars mainly come from the US, the VK, Australia, China and France.
And finally, to follow Momentum on the edges, Andreessen Horowitz now publishes a “Brink -List” – the five web and five mobile apps that come closest. From the previous cycle, three “almost” actually made it: Liefable (#22 web), Polybuzz and Pixverse. The message is clear: today’s near-miss can be the pimples of tomorrow.
The Bottom Line
Chatgpt still leads Gemini and the rise of grok proves that the fight is no longer one-sided. As the top 100 of Andreessen Horowitz shows, the AI ecosystem of the consumer grows up, but it has not stopped mutating. The Giants may close the gap, but the next big outbreak can still come from the ‘Brink’.
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