A16z’s fifth GenAI consumer app rankings

September 17, 2025

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has released the fifth edition of its “Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps” list, providing insight into trends in AI-based applications. OpenAI continues to dominate the top spot, while Google holds second place, alongside a sharp rise in so-called vibe coding tools and an increasing presence of Chinese AI apps in the mobile market.

On the ranking list, Gemini landed in second place behind ChatGPT, attracting around 12% of ChatGPT’s web traffic. Google projects such as AI Studio, NotebookLM, and Labs also made it onto the list. Grok jumped to fourth place due to increased usage around the launch of Grok 4 and its AI companion.

Interestingly, Chinese apps occupied 22 out of 50 spots in mobile rankings, even though only three are primarily used within China. Another clear trend is the popularity of vibe coding startups – among them Lovable (23rd), Cursor (26th), and Replit (41st) – while Bolt remained at the edge of the list.

This list represents the current pulse of the market, showing which tools are solidifying as consistent winners at the top, as well as how quickly new trends are entering the game. Notably, the vibe coding category exploded in just a few months, highlighting the rapid adoption of AI solutions in the developer ecosystem.

In brief: Tech World Highlights

Google expands access to its AI Mode for conversational search, making it globally available, along with new agent capabilities for managing restaurant reservations.
Cohere launched Command A Reasoning, a new enterprise reasoning model outperforming rivals like gpt-oss and DeepSeek R1 on agent benchmark tests.
Runway unveiled Game Worlds in beta, a new tool for creating, exploring, and playing text-based games generated in real-time on the platform.
ByteDance released Seed-OSS, a new open-source reasoning model family with long-context capabilities (500k+ tokens) and strong benchmark performance.
Google and the U.S. General Services Administration announced a new agreement offering Gemini to government agencies at just $0.50 per agency to encourage federal adoption.