Global AI Top 100: Ecosystem Matures, Giants Vie for Dominance
a16z's Global AI Top 100 reveals rising Chinese apps like DeepSeek, Meitu, and Doubao. ChatGPT leads as Grok grows fast. AI ecosystem stabilizes with fewer new entrants.
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Yesterday, renowned global venture capital firm a16z released the fifth edition of its "Global Top 100 Generative AI Consumer Applications Ranking".
This ranking is based on two and a half years of monthly traffic data and Monthly Active Users (MAU) tracking, revealing the evolution trends of daily AI usage behavior.
Key Highlights:
Outstanding performance by Chinese players: DeepSeek, Quark, and other 11 products made it to the web Top 50 list, accounting for 22%; Doubao, Baidu AI Search, and other 22 products entered the mobile Top 50 list, accounting for 44%;
The highly-watched DeepSeek ranks third on web and eighth on mobile, but traffic has declined, with mobile traffic down 22% from peak and web traffic down over 40%;
Meitu Corporation's AI applications saw a mini-explosion, with Meitu, BeautyCam, and other five products all squeezing into the mobile TOP 50;
Global competitive landscape: ChatGPT maintains its commanding first place, Gemini second, Grok shows fastest growth, while Meta AI web version only ranks 46th;
Vibe Coding is on the rise, with related products like Lovable showing high retention and experiencing traffic surges;
Only 14 products have remained in the Top 100 for five consecutive rankings, including one Chinese team product—AI visual editing platform Cutout.Pro;
However, the landscape of top AI products is becoming more stable, with new entries decreasing from 17 in March to 11.