The Most Used GenAI Tools
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
4.7 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Andreessen Horowitz’s Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps report highlights big shifts in just six months. Google scored four web entries with Gemini at #2, Grok rocketed to #4 with 20 million mobile users, coding tools like Lovable and Replit cemented their dominance, and Chinese AI firms kept expanding abroad despite home-market bans. The consumer AI space is finally settling into core categories.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the AI Daily Brief, the most used Gen AI tools. |
| 0:04.8 | Before that in the headlines, turns out people liked GPT5 better all along. |
| 0:10.0 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. |
| 0:18.1 | All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. |
| 0:20.9 | First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, High Touch, and Blitzy. |
| 0:25.2 | And as always, to get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com slash AI Daily Brief. |
| 0:30.0 | Now, if you are interested in sponsoring the show, shoot us a note at sponsors at AIDailybrief. |
| 0:34.5 | And we can send over all the information about how sponsorship works. But with that, let's get into today's episode. Welcome back to the AI Daily |
| 0:43.0 | Brief Headlines edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. Well, friends, never |
| 0:48.3 | underestimate how much people hate change. After all the controversies surrounding the removal of GPT-40, it seems like, |
| 0:56.6 | in general, at least, people like GPT-5 better. Now, I hardly need to tell you that when GPT-5 was |
| 1:02.8 | released, there was a huge outcry over OpenAI deprecating GPT-40 without warning. Reddit, in |
| 1:08.3 | particular, had a full-on meltdown and demanded the return of their |
| 1:11.0 | beloved AI companion. Open AI for their part quickly got the memo and shifted their plans to |
| 1:16.3 | deprecate old models returning GPT-4-0 the following week. With a few weeks of distance from the |
| 1:21.5 | rollout, one developer tried to figure out if people actually prefer GPT-40 or if they are |
| 1:26.3 | simply averse to change. |
| 1:28.1 | An anonymous programmer slash AI commenter that we often mention on this show, |
| 1:31.7 | Flowers or Flowers Slop, going by their X handle, |
| 1:35.0 | took it upon themselves to create a blind testing app that presents two responses to any prompt, |
| 1:39.4 | one generated by GPT40 and the other from GPT5, non-thinking. |
| 1:43.4 | And that's important, obviously, as the thinking |
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