OpenAI’sChatGPT: 339 million monthly active users on the ChatGPT app, 246 million unique monthly visitors to ChatGPT.com.
Microsoft Copilot: 11 million monthly active users on the Copilot app, 15.6 million unique monthly visitors to copilot.microsoft.com.
Google Gemini: 18 million monthly active users on the Gemini app, 47.3 million unique monthly visitors.
Anthropic’s Claude: Two million (!) monthly active users on the Claude app, 8.2 million unique monthly visitors to claude.ai.
Wow. I knew that Claude is less used than ChatGPT, but given how many people in my social circles are Claude fans, I didn’t expect it to be that much smaller. Guess it’s mostly just the Very Online Nerds who know about it.
That difference is rather extreme. It seems LLM companies have a strong winner-take-all market tendency. Similar to Google (web search) or Amazon (online retail) in the past. It seems now much more likely to me that ChatGPT has basically already won the LLM race, similar to how Google won the search engine race in the past. Gemini outperforming ChatGPT in a few benchmarks likely won’t make a difference.
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Wow. I knew that Claude is less used than ChatGPT, but given how many people in my social circles are Claude fans, I didn’t expect it to be that much smaller. Guess it’s mostly just the Very Online Nerds who know about it.
That difference is rather extreme. It seems LLM companies have a strong winner-take-all market tendency. Similar to Google (web search) or Amazon (online retail) in the past. It seems now much more likely to me that ChatGPT has basically already won the LLM race, similar to how Google won the search engine race in the past. Gemini outperforming ChatGPT in a few benchmarks likely won’t make a difference.