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In a year of indiscriminate use of AI tools, who is the real winner?
ChatGPT is far ahead in terms of the number of visits, but the duration of a single use does not exceed the average.
Midjourney was the fourth most visited year, but the second most likely to decline.
引爆AI绘画趋势的Stable Diffusion，年度访问量居然没进前20名？
This industry report, which takes stock of the top 50 most popular AI tools in the world, exposes more hidden trends in the AI circle.
In one year, the world's top 50 AI tools have generated more than 24 billion visits, and the AI industry has an average of 2 billion visits per month.
Among them, ChatGPT contributed 14.6 billion, accounting for more than 60%.
The most on the top 50 is AI image generation tools, with more than 63% of users accessing AI tools through mobile devices such as mobile phones.
Writerbuddy, an agency, studied data from more than 3,000 AIs and finally analyzed the above results.
What other surprising data are there? Let's take a look~
ChatGPT是"大魔王"
First, let's take a look at what key data make up the first year of the big model?
- The top 50 most popular AI tools in the world have a total of 24 billion visits
- Total traffic increased by 10.7 times in 12 months, with an average monthly increase of 236.3 million
- 3.3 billion monthly visits in the last 6 months
- The peak number of visits is 4.1 billion/month
- The average duration of a single use of the AI tool is 12 minutes and 34 seconds
The time frame for the report investigation is from September 22 to the end of August 23.
In the specific ranking, the top five are:
- ChatGPT
- Character.ai
- Quillbot
- Midjourney
- HuggingFace
ChatGPT毫无悬念占据榜首。
In the 10 months since its release, it has generated 14.6 billion visits, accounting for 60% of the total visits to the AI on the list. In August '23, it still had 1.5 billion visits, nearly 5 times more than the second place.
In the entire AI conversation bot category, it accounted for 76.31% of the total number of visits.
Comparatively speaking, the competition for second place may be more intense.
Character.ai occupies this throne with a total of 3.8 billion visits (during the survey period).
Like ChatGPT, it is an AI chatbot. The special feature is to provide a dialogue bot with different characters, and users can share a character AI with the community after creating it, and anyone can have a conversation with this AI.
Quillbot, which ranks third, focuses on data analysis and is biased towards office application scenarios.
The top three tools are all free to use, and Character.ai and Quillbot can even be used without signing up.
Fourth place went to Midjourney, an image generation tool.
第五名则是HuggingFace。
Google's Bard followed in sixth place, and Stable Diffusion, which set the trend of AI painting, was overtaken by a group of "juniors" and ranked outside the top 20.
The "leader" in the field of video generation is Capcut, which is in eighth place.
Runway排在了29名。
Other AIGC star startups, such as Jasper.ai, ranked 19th, and Claud, which is regarded by the industry as the strongest competitor to ChatGPT, are not so strong in terms of visits, ranking last in this list.
But just because you get a lot of traffic doesn't mean you can have the last laugh.
For example, in terms of the average time spent per user, Character.ai tops the list, and Midjourney has a high total number of visits and a high number of churns, with a net loss of 8.66 million visits during the survey period.
For more specific data, Writerbuddy gives some references.
In terms of average time spent by users, the top few are tools that provide immersive experiences or operate complex tools.
For example, ChatGPT and Bard have an average single usage time of about 10 minutes, while Stable Diffusion and Midjourney rank closely.
In terms of net growth, the top three were occupied by ChatGPT, Character.ai, and Bard.
流量流失的前五名,则分别是Craiyon、Midjourney、Quillbot、Jasper、Zyro。
The top two are both image generation tools, which also include the popular Midjourney.
Quillbot and Jasper, as text-generating AI, were both born before the latest big model trends, and their traffic loss may be blamed on fierce competition.
Counting the total number of visits to the above 50 tools can better see some trend changes.
It can be seen that from the release of ChatGPT in November '22, the number of visits began to skyrocket, reaching its peak in May '23, after which the number of visits began to decline.
There are several explanations for the decline:
- AI regulation has been strengthened
- User enthusiasm is diminished
- With the launch of the APP, the number of web page visits decreased
It is worth mentioning that the report shows that more than 60% of users are Xi to accessing AI tools on mobile devices such as mobile phones.
Among the top 50 most popular tools, the category with the most finalists is image generation, followed by AI conversational bots.
Comparatively speaking, this report provides more trend interpretation from a data perspective.
More specifically, what are the big events worth marking in 2023?
A summary starting in March '23 can complement the above report and provide a more comprehensive and objective reference.
2023: The Year of AI
A statistical report from Everypixel Journal sorts out the major events worth paying attention to in the AI industry from March to December 2023.
It divides the AI tools that have exploded this year into three categories, text, image, and video generation.
Text generation tools
Why start in March?
Probably this month, GPT-4 and Bard have been released successively, directly pushing the trend of large models to a climax.
This also corresponds to Writerbuddy's data, which showed that the total number of visits to the top 50 AI tools increased by 900 million in March-April 2023, the fastest growing month in the survey period.
The capabilities of AI chatbots also start from this time and extend to various dimensions.
Google's Bard is trained using a multimodal dataset. Since its release, GPT-4 has been continuously updated, expanding functions such as plug-ins, networking, voice support, and image generation.
On the other hand, Meta released the open-source model Llama 2, which gave birth to a large number of alpaca variants, and the open-source community was also lively.
In addition, developer platform Stack Overflow has launched OverflowAI, which supports AI-driven search, making it easy for developers to find the information they need in Visual Studio Code and Slack.
There is also an open-source model is the Mixtral 7B launched by Mistral AI, which is also the strongest of the open-source basic models, which can challenge 13B and 34B. Zephyr-7B-beta, which is fine-tuned based on Mistral-7B, has also become the only 7B model in the top row of several review rankings.
In addition, in November, Kai-Fu Lee's 010000 launched Yi-34B, which surpassed LLaMA2 Chat 70B, Claude 2, and ChatGPT with a 94.08% win rate in Alpaca's certified model category.
Musk's new company, xAI, which was founded in July, also released its first large model, Grok, which is said to be able to obtain data from the X platform in real time.
The end of the year was also very heavy, first Google released Gemini, which is known as the closest competitor to ChatGPT's performance.
Later, Mistral AI launched Mixtral 8x7B (7B parameters x 8 experts) at the end of the year, which is the first open-source MoE model. The MoE architecture is also the rumored scheme adopted by GPT-4, and it can be said that this is the closest episode of the open source large model to GPT-4.
Image generation tools
In 2023, the field of image generation is particularly competitive.
In March, Adobe Firefly was released, Adobe Firefly was integrated into Photoshop, and the text effect was also a big attraction.
Midjourney launches V5 with improved image generation efficiency, consistency, and resolution. Recently, V6 also came out, bringing 5 major upgrades to support the generation of simple text.
I HAVE TO MENTION THAT CHATT'S DRAWING PARTNER DALL· E 3，DALL· The E 3 simplifies image generation without the need for complex prompt engineering, and can refine prompts and make image adjustments based on user feedback.
Shutterstock, a stock photo gallery website, has also introduced an AI feature that allows users to use AI to generate new content and simply edit and convert images in the gallery.
The world of image generation is no longer what it used to be, and here's a comparison of text-image generation in 2007 and 2023:
Video generation tool
Video generation has changed dramatically in 23 years.
Pika attracted 500,000 users when it was first launched, generating millions of videos every week. At the end of the year, the upgrade of Pika 1.0 enabled users to create and edit videos in various styles such as 3D animation, anime, cartoons, movies, and more.
Meta has also launched Codec avatars, which focus on 3D face generation in videos.
The blockbuster launch of Runway's Gen-2 takes video effects to 4K ultra-realistic levels in one fell swoop, and all it takes is a simple one-sentence input.
HeyGen has launched an AI portrait video tool, which contains 100+ digital human materials and templates, and also supports 300+ different timbres and 40+ languages. Just select the image, write the text, and output three steps, so that the mold can speak Chinese naturally.
In addition, Stability AI has also launched its own video generation tool, Stable Video Diffusion, which not only supports text-to-video, image-to-video generation, but also supports the conversion of objects from a single perspective to multiple perspectives.
In conclusion, it has been an extremely competitive year in all areas of AIGC.
But there are also some major collaborations in the industry that are worth paying attention to.
The first is a major collaboration between industry leaders.
Stability AI&Init ML
Stability AI acquired Init ML, the core team behind the image processing application ClipDrop, and integrated Stability AI into the ClipDrop ecosystem, leading to the development of SDXL Turbo.
Runway&Getty Images
Runway has teamed up with Getty Images to launch a new video generation model, RGM, that combines Runway's AI capabilities with Getty Images' creative content library, transforming the content creation process and enabling companies to generate high-quality, customized videos based on their brand image.
Snowflake&Neeva
Data warehousing platform Snowflake has acquired Neeva, a startup that uses generative AI tools to enhance the search experience, and Neeva recently shut down an ad-free search engine.
Shutterstock&OpenAI
Shutterstock and OpenAI have entered into a six-year partnership to provide OpenAI with high-quality datasets such as images, videos, and music libraries.
There have also been some milestones in the AI industry as a whole in '23.
The most obvious is the legal aspect. AI giants such as OpenAI are deeply involved in rights protection disputes, which has also contributed to the advancement of AI legislation.
For example, the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission have reached an agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act. The bill will be the world's first comprehensive regulation in the field of artificial intelligence.
and the U.S. Copyright Office clarifying its position on AI-generated content. It refuses to register copyrights for AI-generated images.
At the same time, countries around the world are also actively introducing policy provisions to govern AI.
Finally, the report also lists some of the hottest events in the industry.
Three of them are related to OpenAI. They are:
- Financial institutions such as JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup restrict the use of ChatGPT by employees due to security concerns;
- OpenAI hires humans to screen ChatGPT's sensitive content at low wages;
- OpenAI infighting at the top.
The report also focuses on the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards award to AI, when creators refused to accept the award, sparking heated discussions about AI creation.
In short, in the past year, many new things have been born in the AI industry, and many unprecedented events have occurred.
Through them, we can better understand 2023 and look forward to the 2024 that has already arrived.
What have been your most used AI tools in the past year, and what have been your most impressive AI events?
Welcome to share in the comment area~
Reference Links:
[1]https://writerbuddy.ai/blog/ai-industry-analysis
[2]https://twitter.com/xiaohuggg/status/1741352332594676143
[3]https://journal.everypixel.com/2023-the-year-of-ai
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