The use of artificial intelligence (AI) apps has grown quickly after OpenAI introduced the ChatGPT generative AI chatbot tool in November 2022. As of March 2024, there were over 180 million users of ChatGPT, resulting in 1.6 billion monthly visits.

Although ChatGPT is the most well-known, artificial intelligence (AI) tools of various kinds are already being utilized in a wide range of fields and industries, including the creation of speech apps, healthcare treatments, and maps. These tools are starting to change our workflows and lifestyles.

The broad application of AI in daily life is a recent phenomenon. Here are the top 10 AI tools before you scroll down for a thorough analysis of how AI is being utilized, how organizations are utilizing it, and estimates of the size of the growing industry:

ChatGPT

Based on a large language model (LLM), the pervasive AI chatbot is taught to respond to prompts in-depth and in a manner that is natural and human-like. The website dominates traffic to generative AI tools, with over 1.6 billion visitors in January 2024.

Not bad for an LLM that is less than two years old: ChatGPT currently has over two million developers and is utilized by at least 92% of Fortune 500 enterprises.

AI Characters

Character AI is a chatbot that was introduced in September 2022 and use a neural language model to let users build or find characters to engage with. Along with real individuals, the characters on the website are drawn from novels, TV series, and motion pictures. According to theend of 2023, it accounted for 15.77% of the overall AI traffic, totaling 3.8 billion visits, making it one of the top trending AI tools.

QuillBot

In 2017, Quillbot, an online writing aid, was introduced. The program helps users create better content by rearranging and paraphrasing words. In addition, the technologies translate content into several other languages, verify grammar, and identify plagiarism.

As of February 2024, it had an average of 99.6 million monthly views, making it a well-known name in the AI writing community.

Mid-Trip

Launched in July 2022, Midjourney is an AI-powered image generator that turns natural language text inputs into graphics. 19.3 million people have registered on Discord as of March 2024; it's the platform where you can create prompts and watch artwork come to life in front of you.

Putting a Face Hug

Hugging Face is an AI-powered data science community and platform that lets users collaborate on projects, exchange ideas, and develop, train, and implement machine learning models based on open-source code and technology.

In 2023, Hugging Face was valued at $4.5 billion, with key investors including Salesforce, Google, Amazon, and Nvidia. It states that throughout the ecosystem, there are more than a million models, databases, and apps.

Google Gemini / Bard

Launched in March 2023, Google's AI chatbot, formerly known as Bard before being rebranded as Gemini, is a collaborative conversation tool that was unveiled in February 2023. It has grown to be one of the most well-known AI technologies because of Google's power.

The main distinction between ChatGPT and Gemini is that the former sources information from the web. And unlike ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing, Gemini was trained on Google’s own LLMs – Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) and PaLM 2.

NovelAI

NovelAI is a premium monthly subscription service that offers text-to-image synthesis and storytelling assistance via artificial intelligence. In June 2021, the writing tool was released in beta, and in October 2022, the image generating tool was added.

 CapCut

CapCut is an all-in-one AI platform that enables users to design graphics, edit, and generate films within browsers. Established in 2020, CapCut consistently maintains a prominent position on lists of the "most downloaded apps" for both Apple and Android, and as of 2023, it has at least 200 million active users.

AI Janitor

Launched in May 2023, Janitor AI is a character chatbot that was first built on ChatGPT. It lets users create their own characters and engage with those created by other users to create engaging roleplaying games.

This model was adapted so that users can engage in not-safe-for-work (NSFW) interactions with the characters.

Civitai 

Civitai is a repository for AI art models made using Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image diffusion model. It was launched in November 2022. Users can browse and customize a large variety of models on the platform, which facilitates the sharing and rating of personalized models, textual inversions, and other content.

The site is expected to have 307,000 monthly visitors as of January 2024.

What Uses Do AI Tools Serve?

AI technologies reply to prompts with automatically generated responses or simple tasks by using machine learning (ML) that has been trained on large data sets. Multimedia language (ML) algorithms can generate or summarize text, modify or produce images and videos, record audio, verify code, and more. In order to forecast and spot trends, they are able to examine the data that is provided to them. As time went on, theycan learn from the data and prompts they are given to improve their performance.

These are a few varieties of AI software. Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots may converse with consumers via text or voice thanks to Natural Language Processing (NLP), which is the analysis, comprehension, and imitation of human language. Computer vision analyzes images and/or videos to identify and categorize items, find patterns, and discover inconsistencies.

Large data sets are analyzed using big data processing, which calls for strong computer capabilities and effective algorithms in order to generate forecasts and suggestions. Algorithms for making decisions use methods like neural networks and reinforcement learning to analyze the data and provide recommendations based on the likelihood of the best results.

Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, virtual assistants, biometric systems, modeling and predictive analytics tools, speech recognition and language translation, and recommendation engines can all make use of these techniques.

More people are using these tools than any other type of software application. ChatGPT became the first platform to reach one million users in five days after its November 2022 launch.

In April 2023, a poll by consulting company McKinsey revealed that one-third of the firms had implemented generative AI on a regular basis in at least one business function, less than a year later. Because of the advancements in generative AI, almost 40% of respondents stated their firms will boost their overall investment in AI.

The poll also revealed that interest in generative AI is growing outside of the workplace. Approximately 79% of participants reported having some exposure to generative AI, whether in their professional or personal lives, with 22% of them making use of it  in their own work regularly. Unsurprisingly, AI use is at its highest level among respondents working in the technology sector and those in North America.

According to an analysis by WriterBuddy.ai, the websites of the top 50 generative AI tools received approximately 24 billion views between September 2022 and August 2023. The number of visitors increased by 236.3 million on average per month, reaching an average of 2 billion visits each month. The last three months saw a 3.3 billion increase in traffic.

With 5.5 billion visits, the US accounted for 22.62% of the overall traffic, while 3.9 billion visits came from European nations. More than 63% of consumers used mobile devices to access AI products. Sixty percent of the traffic evaluated came from 14 billion visits to ChatGPT alone.

Economists and analysts think that the AI revolution is only getting started. Numerous individuals who have begun integrating AI tools into their daily activities and  workflows have their favorites, but what are the most popular tools?

Conclusion 

The use of generative AI tools has increased dramatically in the year since November 2022. The most popular tools to date are AI chatbots, which generated the largest share of traffic with 19.1 billion visits over the year to August 2023. The popularity of ChatGPT and other tools, like Google Bard, which almost any industry can use to enhance productivity, are evidence of this. The AI industry is growing rapidly, with the top tools attracting billions of visits. When new tools launch, they can attract an initial surge in interest from potential users, driving traffic to their websites. Despite a decline in traffic of 1.2 billion users following the peak around May, the industry will likely continue to grow as new tools are released and adoption increases.

The generative AI industry is in its early stages and will see further disruptions and market shifts in the future.