The Top 100 GenAI Products, Ranked and Explained

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This month, a16z’s Consumer team released the fourth edition of the GenAI 100 — a data-driven ranking of the top 50 AI-first web products and mobile apps, based on unique monthly visits and active users. In just six months, the consumer AI landscape has shifted dramatically. Some products surged ahead, others plateaued, and a few unexpected players reshaped the leaderboard entirely. In this episode, a16z General Partner Anish Acharya and Partner Olivia Moore join us to unpack the latest rankings and explore the key cultural and product moments that brought us to this point. Which applications are leading the pack — and which ones are quietly on the rise? What do trends like AI video, companion apps, and “vibe coding” reveal about the future of consumer AI? And for the first time, the team also analyzed which products aren’t just gaining users, but generating real revenue. If you’re looking to understand where we are in the GenAI adoption cycle — and what might come next — this episode offers a data-backed view into one of the fastest-moving corners of technology. You can find the full GenAI 100 list at a16z.com/genai100-4

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0:00.0	Consumer activity typically lags by six to nine to 12 months what's happening on the research side.
0:07.0	So many of these assumptions, and that's why they're assumptions, they seem intuitively correct, are going to turn out to be incorrect.
0:14.0	We are finally on the verge of AI video starting to really work.
0:19.0	It sort of follows the trend of AI decreasing the cost of creation in every way.
0:24.7	95% of YC companies or something are now building, using those tools.
0:29.5	I think compared to where we're going to be, we're still incredibly early.
0:33.6	This month, our consumer team at A16Z dropped our fourth installment of the Gen AI 100 list,
0:40.1	a list of the top 50 AI-first web products and mobile apps based on unique monthly visits and active users.
0:47.3	And as our consumer team said themselves, in just six months, the consumer AI landscape has been redrawn.
0:54.1	Some products surged, others stalled,
0:56.5	and a few unexpected players rewrote the leaderboard overnight. In today's episode, we
1:02.4	explored the latest rankings and the pivotal AI moments over the last few years. Mid Journey
1:08.0	and Character AI both came out before ChatGBT.
1:11.7	Remember Snapchat's My AI, the Valenciaaga Pope.
1:16.9	Coke did their Christmas ad.
1:19.7	Each one of those unlocks broke down the assumptions that many of us held prior
1:23.4	and have helped culminate hundreds, if not thousands, of AI applications that are now vying for our attention.
1:30.5	The App Store is going to be chaos.
1:32.2	Yeah.
1:33.2	It is going to be chaos.
1:34.9	So which applications top the charts this time around, whether household brand names or tools that you may have never heard of?
1:42.4	Plus, where does this flurry of activity place us on
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