ChatGPT is (obviously) the most popular AI app – but the runners up may surprise you

Which generative AI apps are folks utilizing? Which of them are folks attempting a couple of occasions and ditching, and which of them are they sticking with? Andreessen Horowitz, a California-based enterprise capital agency, sheds some mild on these questions with the third installment of its High 100 Gen AI Shopper Apps checklist. 

Each six months, the agency says, it analyzes out there information to see what AI apps persons are utilizing. Andreessen Horowtiz then creates two lists of the highest 50 apps: one by distinctive visits, and the opposite by whole month-to-month energetic customers. There is no shock which app takes the highest spot on each: ChatGPT. 

There’s a little overlap between the 2 lists, however few apps make each. Here is a deeper take a look at the info. 

By way of distinctive month-to-month visits over the past six months, ChatGPT tops the checklist by a large margin. Acquainted names like Character.ai, Perplexity, Claude, and Suno sit within the prime 5 spots, with JanitorAI, Quillbot, Poe, LinerAI, and CivitAI within the prime 10.

By whole energetic month-to-month customers, ChatGPT is primary once more, however the prime 5 is completely totally different. Right here, Microsoft Edge, Photomath, Nova, and Bing make up the highest 5, with Remini, Chat & Ask AI, Brainly, Meitu, and Character.AI rounding out the highest 10. 

What can we take from this? 

First off, the info suggests persons are utilizing AI principally for inventive endeavors. Andreessen Horowitz notes that 52% of the apps on each lists give attention to content material creation or enhancing. Most of them are picture and video-creating apps, however voice and music mills are widespread as nicely. 

Video-generating apps Luna and Viggle appeared on the highest month-to-month visits checklist for the very first time, taking the 14th and twenty first spots, respectively — indicating a transparent curiosity in AI-generated video. Music generator Suno made the checklist final time however surged from the thirty sixth spot to the fifth spot this time round.

It is comprehensible why persons are curious about trying out generative AI apps that allow you to create images, voices, or music — however the apps they select to subscribe to inform a special story. A lot of the apps on the highest of the energetic month-to-month person checklist are both multi-purpose AI apps like ChatGPT, Bing, or Microsoft Edge, or area of interest ones like PhotoMath. 

Since Photomath probably noticed a surge in folks looking for end-of-the-year math assist for college, it will be attention-grabbing to see the subsequent checklist to see if these subscribers stayed over summer time break. 

Andreessen Horowitz additionally famous that apps for producing issues apart from photographs are on the rise. The generative apps on the final checklist, simply six months in the past, had been nearly all image-based. On this checklist, picture mills make up simply 41% of generative apps.