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AI Tracker — Which AI Is the World Using? | Who is using AI?

a search engine to track AI

AI Tracker

which AI is the world actually using? tracked daily — search interest, SDK downloads, OSS momentum, model downloads, attention.

share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.

updated 2026-08-01 · search-share data through Jul 19, 2026 · refreshed daily

search, map and charts need JavaScript — but every number on this page is baked in daily, so keep scrolling.

01 · the world map

the world, colored by the AI each country prefers

tap a country for its full top-5. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts (85 countries with enough search volume; the rest stay neutral).

time machine — drag through the archive; grows daily from Jul 7, 2026.

02 · latest movers

what moved on Jul 19, 2026

the biggest one-day share swings across every country and tool. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts — history accumulates from Jul 7, 2026.

⚠ search-share data is from Jul 19, 2026 (13 days behind) — Google Trends is rate-limiting our pulls, so the shares and moves below are that day’s, not today’s. Signals (GitHub, Wikipedia, npm/PyPI) are current.

03 · explore the tracker

pick a tool, go deep

ChatGPT leads in 84 of the 85 tracked countries — the exception: Russia (where DeepSeek leads). Globally it takes 74.4% of AI-tool search interest this week; Gemini is second at 8.7%. The fastest 30-day climber is Kimi (+1.2pp). Each tool below has its own page with country tables, trends and momentum. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.

Today in AI — the market<br>the AI market like a trading terminal: all 26 tickers on the tape, the day’s gainers and decliners, country movers and overnight developer signals — refreshed every morning<br>open →

AI Daily — the game<br>5 questions from today’s real data — guess the movers, call the country leaders, keep your streak. same questions for everyone, new game every morning<br>play →

The wire — AI news<br>headlines from official sources with the market reaction baked in — how search share and attention moved in the 7 days after each story. correlation, not causation<br>read →

chat & search · 15

ChatGPT<br>OpenAI<br>74.4%<br>▼ -0.3pp · 30d

Gemini<br>Google<br>8.7%<br>— +0.1pp · 30d

Claude<br>Anthropic<br>3.9%<br>— -0.1pp · 30d

Grok<br>xAI<br>2.9%<br>— +0.1pp · 30d

DeepSeek<br>DeepSeek<br>1.9%<br>— +0.1pp · 30d

NotebookLM<br>Google<br>1.6%<br>▼ -0.3pp · 30d

Meta AI<br>Meta<br>1.0%<br>▼ -0.4pp · 30d

Character.AI<br>Character<br>0.8%<br>— +0.0pp · 30d

Qwen<br>Alibaba<br>0.8%<br>▲ +0.2pp · 30d

Perplexity<br>Perplexity<br>0.4%<br>— -0.1pp · 30d

Microsoft Copilot<br>Microsoft<br>0.4%<br>— -0.1pp · 30d

Janitor AI<br>JanitorAI<br>0.4%<br>▲ +0.3pp · 30d

Kimi<br>Moonshot AI<br>0.4%<br>▲ +1.2pp · 30d

Mistral<br>Mistral AI<br>0.0%<br>— +0.0pp · 30d

Poe<br>Quora<br>0.0%<br>— -0.1pp · 30d

media & voice · 8

Midjourney<br>Midjourney<br>0.4%<br>— -0.1pp · 30d

Suno<br>Suno<br>0.4%<br>— +0.1pp · 30d

ElevenLabs<br>ElevenLabs<br>0.4%<br>— +0.0pp · 30d

Veo<br>Google<br>0.4%<br>— +0.1pp · 30d

Leonardo.Ai<br>Canva<br>0.0%<br>— +0.0pp · 30d

Runway<br>Runway<br>0.0%<br>— +0.0pp · 30d

Sora<br>OpenAI<br>0.0%<br>— +0.1pp · 30d

Luma<br>Luma AI<br>0.0%<br>— +0.1pp · 30d

dev tools · 3

GitHub Copilot<br>GitHub<br>0.4%<br>▼ -0.2pp · 30d

Replit<br>Replit<br>0.4%<br>— +0.1pp · 30d

Cursor<br>Anysphere<br>0.0%<br>▼ -0.2pp · 30d

Compare — the race<br>all 26 tools on one 12-month chart, plus any country’s full AI diet — ranked, with 1d/7d/30d moves<br>open →

Watch the race<br>the animated bar race — press play and watch 12 months of the AI race unfold<br>play →

Developers — the signal<br>what developers actually pull: SDK downloads, GitHub momentum and open-model downloads<br>open →

The record book<br>all-time highs, biggest single-day moves and the longest streaks the AI market has set since the archive era began — a new page is written whenever a record falls<br>open →

For your site — the widget<br>put today’s AI movers on your blog or newsletter — a free widget that updates itself every morning. pick a layout, copy one snippet, done<br>get it →

Research console — PhD mode<br>filter every signal by tool, country and date — down to a single day — then export, cite and reproduce it. plain-JSON API, no key — with a fully documented methodology and a validation study against vendor ground truth.<br>open →

every page updates daily · latest weekly point: 2026-07-19 · data also feeds the blog and the adoption map.

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