The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps

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🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Anish Acharya speaks with Olivia Moore about the latest edition of the a16z Top 100 AI Apps report. They cover why ChatGPT is still 30 times bigger than Claude on web, how the three major platforms are specializing for different users, what global adoption data reveals about cultural attitudes toward AI, and why agents, memory, and voice are about to change everything.

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0:00.0	The cultural change and the cultural adoption will be slower than the technology change and what's actually possible.
0:06.0	If you actually look at the app stores that are emerging on Claude and ChatchipT, they both have 200 plus apps, but there's only 11% overlap.
0:16.0	Essentially, you'd be able to log in with your ChatGbt account and take like your memory and your tokens with
0:23.1	you and then that other product would be able to kind of borrow those things to be even more
0:28.2	powerful and helpful for you i don't think we've seen a social product yet to succeed that's like
0:33.9	entirely AI content the emotional stakes just feel lower in some ways.
0:40.6	Chat GPT is the biggest AI product in the world.
0:44.0	It's also only reaching 10% of the global population
0:47.1	on a weekly basis.
0:48.8	We're still early.
0:50.6	Six additions into the A16Z top 100 AI Action Report, the platforms are diverging.
0:57.0	Claude is doubling down on prosumer tools.
1:00.0	Gemini's traction tracks almost perfectly to creative model releases.
1:04.0	And ChatGBTGBT is building towards something that looks more like Google, and everything
1:10.0	that monetizes through ads,
1:11.9	transactions, and subscriptions. The global data is surprising. Singapore, Hong Kong, and the UAE lead
1:19.5	per capita AI usage. The U.S. sits at number 20. Trust in AI varies wildly, from 32% in the U.S. to 80% in China.
1:31.1	Anisha Chariah, general partner at A16Z, speaks with Olivia Moore, partner at A16Z.
1:39.9	Olivia, welcome. Thanks for having me.
1:42.3	It's the most exciting time of the year, which is the Top 100 report, is coming out today, I think. Is that right? Yep. It's been six editions over three years. Talk to us about what's the same, what's changed, what's your excitement level? What's up with the report? Yeah. In many ways, like so much has changed and there's been just an incredible amount of growth since the first time we put out this list in 2023.
2:03.6	On the other hand, from like a macro level, we're still so early.
2:07.8	Like, Chatsubit is by far the biggest global AI product and still only 10% of the global population is using it on a weekly active basis.
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