Andreessen Horowitz has published the sixth edition of their ‘Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps’ — and the numbers tell a story that’s both familiar and surprising.
ChatGPT: Unchallenged Leader
ChatGPT remains by far the largest consumer AI application. 900 million weekly active users — up 500 million from a year ago. On the web, ChatGPT is 2.7x larger than number two (Gemini), and 2.5x on mobile. This dominance is remarkable, even considering OpenAI’s enormous head start in brand recognition.
OpenClaw: From Side Project to GitHub Record
The most surprising story in the report: OpenClaw, an open-source project by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger. What started as ‘Clawdbot’ overtook React in GitHub stars within 18 months — a milestone that took React eight years. In March, OpenClaw crossed 250,000 stars, making it the highest-starred repository on GitHub after TensorFlow.
OpenClaw is an agent framework that runs locally and connects to LLMs like Claude, GPT, or DeepSeek. OpenAI acquired the project in February 2026. It still requires terminal knowledge to set up — but a more accessible version is probably just a matter of time.
AI Moves Beyond the Browser
This time, a16z broadened the scope: they’re counting not just AI-native apps but any consumer product where generative AI has become core to the experience. That brings Canva, Notion, CapCut, and Grammarly into the list. And it highlights a trend: AI is moving out of the browser and into the tools people already use every day.
Anthropic has taken exactly this path with Claude in Excel and Claude in PowerPoint. OpenAI did the same with ChatGPT for Excel. Google has deeply integrated Gemini into Workspace — Docs, Sheets, Gmail, Meet. The question is no longer whether AI arrives in productivity tools, but how fast it becomes the default.
Agents Are Getting Serious
Beyond OpenClaw, Manus and Genspark also made the Top 100 — platforms where you hand over open-ended tasks and AI handles the entire workflow. Research, spreadsheet analysis, presentations. This isn’t chat anymore. These are digital coworkers.
My Take
The report confirms what you feel in daily usage: ChatGPT dominates in breadth, but depth — where AI actually takes work off your plate — is being defined elsewhere. The integration into existing tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Workspace) is the real battlefield shift. And OpenClaw shows that open source still has surprises in store in the agent world.
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