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Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps, According to Andreessen Horowitz
IBL News | New York
Andreessen Horowitz posted the fifth edition of its Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps, reflecting data on how AI usage is evolving.
In the battle of the LLM assistants, ChatGPT still led, while Google, Grok (with its AI companion avatars and anime avatar Ani), and Meta were narrowing the gap.
DeepSeek, Claude, and Perplexity were on top, too.
As takeaways, Google listed four entrants on the web. Gemini came in second place behind ChatGPT, with 12% of ChatGPT’s visits on the web.
Google’s AI Studio, NotebookLM, and Labs became viral products. Labs hosts Flow, where users can try out video model Veo 3, Doppl (clothing try-on), Portraits (AI coaches), and Project Mariner (an agentic browser).
On the web list, three companies with over 75% of their traffic coming from China rank in the top 20: Quark, Alibaba’s “all-in-one” AI assistant, Doubao, Bytedance’s general LLM product, and Kimi, a chatbot from startup Moonshot AI.
Other Chinese apps include Hailuo and Kling (video generation models), SeaArt (image generation), Cutout Pro (image editing), and Manus and Monica (prosumer/productivity).
Chinese video models have an advantage over Western-developed models, both because there are more researchers focused on video in China and fewer IP regulations, which likely allows for training on copyrighted data.
An estimated 22 of the 50 apps were developed in China, while only three are primarily used in China. There is particularly heavy concentration in the photo and video category, as Meitu alone produced five entries: Photo & Video Editor, BeautyPlus, BeautyCam, Wink, and Airbrush. Bytedance is also a significant player, producing Douban (a general LLM assistant), Cici, Gauth (an edtech platform), and Hypic (a platform for photo/video editing).
Vibe coding apps are doing well. Examples are Bolt, Lovable, Replit, and database provider Supabase.
In consumer behavior with AI, the list shows general assistance (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Poe); companionship (Character AI); image generation (Midjourney, Leonardo); image and video editing (Veed, Cutout); voice generation (Eleven Labs); productivity tools (Photoroom, Gamma, Quillbot); model hosting (Civitai, HuggingFace), DeepAI (general assistance), JanitorAI (companionship), Pixelcut (image editing), and Suno (music generation).
Many utilize API-available or open source models from other companies, and some behave as model aggregators.
Listmakers come from just five countries: the U.S., the UK (Eleven Labs, Veed), Australia (Leonardo); China (Cutout Pro); and France (Photoroom, HuggingFace).
Midjourney is famously bootstrapped, and Cutout Pro has also not fundraised.
Links: Top 50 Gen AI Consumer Web ProductsAdot AI
Candy Network
Character.ai
ChatGPT
Civitai
Claude
CrushOn
Cursor
Cutout
DeepAI
Deepseek
Doubao
Eleven Labs
Gamma
Gemini
Google AI Studio
Google Labs
Grok
Hailuo
Hugging Face
JanitorAI
Joi
Juicychat
Kimi
KlingAI
Leonardo
Lovable
Manus
Meta AI
Midjourney
Monica
NotebookLM
OurDream.ai
Perplexity
Photoroom
Pixelcut
Poe
Polybuzz
Quark
Quillbot
Qwen
Remaker
Remove.bg
Replit
SeaArt
Spicychat
Suno
Turboscribe
Veed
ZeroGPTLinks: Top 50 Gen AI Consumer Mobile Apps
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Questions raised over AI rollout in schools
Questions raised over AI rollout in schools.Source: Youtube
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UN General Assembly calls for binding AI safeguards
Politicians, scientists, Nobel Prize winners and many leading artificial intelligence researchers have put out an urgent call for binding international measures over the use of AI.Source: Youtube
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How AI is helping the wine industry
Vineyard workers harvesting grapes are getting some help from an artificial intelligence-assisted electric tractor.Source: Youtube
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AI promises to reshape commerce and industry
Artificial intelligence is set to become an integral part of the Australian economy. From robots to supercomputers, we are processing information faster than ever, and it is set to revolutionise the economy. Across everything from the technology sector to education, health care, and professional services, AI promises to reshape commerce and industry.Source: Youtube
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Courses help parents navigate digital literacy as AI influences teens
As more teens turn to artificial intelligence and AI chatbots, parents are asking: what is digital literacy and when should we start talking about it?Source: Youtube
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Oklahoma could be first state to track parolees with AI
Oklahoma could be on the path to leading the nation in using artificial intelligence to monitor people on parole and probation.Source: Youtube
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Courses help parents navigate digital literacy as AI influences teens
As more teens turn to artificial intelligence and AI chatbots, parents are asking: what is digital literacy and when should we start talking about it?Source: Youtube
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AI Has Evolved Into Something Quotidian, But Not Disruptive
IBL News | New York
The AI threat has evolved into something more quotidian, similar to other social megatraumas, such as nuclear proliferation, climate change, and pandemic risk. The dystopian prediction of super intelligence takeoff, as well as human extinction and other bad outcomes, didn’t take place, according to experts consulted by The New York Times.
Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, two Princeton-affiliated computer scientists, published in April “A.I. as Normal Technology.” They stated, “We should understand AI as a tool that we can and should remain in control of, and we argue that this goal does not require drastic policy interventions or technical breakthroughs.”
Elon Musk recently declared that for most people, the best use for his LLM Grok was to turn old photos into microvideos.
However, the hype cycle dominates the economy:
• Around 60 percent of stock-market growth in recent years has been attributed to AI-associated companies.
• Researchers are negotiating pay packages in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Overall, AI capital expenditures show that there is more money being poured into construction related to chip production than into offices. The economist Alex Tabarrok said, “We’re building houses for AI faster than we’re building houses for humans or places for humans to work.”
Self-driving cars, like Waymo cabs, and Ukrainian autonomous drones will be followed by drug development, materials discovery, and other innovations, and the economy will be transformed. Like electricity, the Industrial Revolution, or the internet, AI will utterly change, but not terminate, the world.