The release of ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot, launched a race among tech companies to develop more powerful competitors. Since November 2022, the AI market has been flooded with models from tech giants such as Microsoft and Google, as well as startups including Anthropic and Perplexity.
See which AI tools are receiving the most attention so far this year, according to data from Similarweb.
Microsoft’s AI-powered assistant, Copilot, had 104.1 million total visits worldwide from March to May, according to Similarweb. Copilot is embedded into Microsoft’s apps, such as Word and Outlook.
Poe, which allows users to interact with AI-powered chatbots, including ChatGPT and Claude, all in one place, had 148 million total visits worldwide from March to May, according to Similarweb. Poe was created by question-and-answer website, Quora.
Claude, a business-focused AI-powered assistant from Anthropic, had 186 million total visits worldwide from March to May, according to Similarweb. Anthropic said that it trained Claude and its other models to be safe, accurate, and secure.
Perplexity, an AI-powered chatbot search engine, had 217.4 million total visits worldwide from March to May, according to Similarweb.
Character, which allows users to chat with user-built, AI-powered characters, had 723.6 million total visits worldwide from March to May, according to Similarweb.
DeepL, which can translate text and full document files, had 810.5 million total visits worldwide from March to May, according to Similarweb.
Google’s AI-powered chatbot, Gemini, had 1.27 billion total visits worldwide from March to May, according to Similarweb.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which helped kickstart the AI chatbot race, had 2.5 billion total visits worldwide from March to May, according to Similarweb. The company announced its latest version of the chatbot, ChatGPT-4o, in May.
