An analysis by Andreesen Horowitz, a venture capital firm.
Two new major categories emerged – music (e.g. Suno for generating original songs) and productivity tools (e.g. Liner, Eightify) that help improve interactions with software. Six of the seven productivity apps on the list either offer or operate entirely through a Google Chrome extension. This helps users “in the flow” of their work and avoiding copy and pasting prompts and outputs.
AI companionship is becoming mainstream, with 8 “companion” products on the web list and 2 on mobile. Character.AI leads this category and sees an average of 2 hours of usage per day.
Mobile app usage skews more towards general assistants mimicking ChatGPT, with 10 apps having similar names.
Popular mobile app categories include avatar creators using selfie data, AI keyboards, and edtech apps like language learning.
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