ChatGPT competitors seeing more visits, says a16z’s latest AI report

27 Aug 2025

ChatGPT rivals like Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok, and, to a lesser extent, Meta AI, are closing the gap to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot, according to a new report focused on the consumer AI landscape from venture firm Andreessen Horowitz.

The report, in its fifth iteration, showcases two and a half years of data about consumers’ evolving use of AI products.

And for the fifth time, 14 companies appeared on the list of top AI products: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Poe, Character AI, Midjourney, Leonardo, Veed, Cutout, ElevenLabs, Photoroom, Gamma, QuillBot, Civitai, and Hugging Face.

The companies represent a cross section of how consumers are using AI: for general assistance, companionship, image and video editing, voice generation, productivity, and model hosting.

Five other companies appeared on all but the first report, the firm notes, including Claude, DeepAI, Janitor AI, Pixelcut, and Suno, representing general AI use, companionship, image editing, and music generation.

Andreessen Horowitz says its report relies on data from third-party market intelligence firms, including Similarweb, for web products and Sensor Tower for mobile app data.

Of note, No. 2 app Gemini is closing the gap to No. 1 app ChatGPT on mobile devices, but with almost half as many monthly active users. Not surprisingly, Gemini’s AI technology sees stronger adoption on Android, with nearly 90% of the monthly active user base. On the web, Gemini also came in second place behind ChatGPT, with approximately 12% of ChatGPT’s visits.

See the full report for the top 50 AI apps being used and more usage trends.