On January 8th, the latest data from SimilarWeb, a web-based analysis company, shows that there are more than 100 people in the world than there areChatGPT The market power at the global end of the web page faces serious challengesIt's going through a significant loss of market share Gemini Strong rise。
1AI quotes from the blog, and the data indicates that ChatGPT was a global page in January 2026flowTHE SHARE HAS BEEN REDUCED TO 64.51 TP3T, WHICH REPRESENTS A SHARP DROP OF ABOUT 20 PERCENTAGE POINTS COMPARED TO THE LEVEL OF DOMINATION UP TO 861 TP3T IN JANUARY 2025. WHILE IT IS NOT YET CLEAR WHAT THE SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE OF ITS MOBILE-END APPLICATIONS IS, THE FALL IN THE CLIFF OF WEB-END DATA HAS CONFIRMED A CLEAR SHIFT IN USER PREFERENCES。
While the ChatGPT share is declining, competitors are rapidly encroaching on the market. Gemini under Google was particularly impressive, and its market share had succeeded in breaking the psychological threshold of 20%, reaching 21.5% in January 2026。
At the same time, XAI ' s promotion of Grok also showed strong growth, with the share of 3.4% approaching DeepSeek (3.7%). By contrast, the market share of other AI tools, such as Perplexity, Claude and Copilot, hovered mainly around 2% and did not fluctuate significantly。
THE DATA ALSO REVEAL THE IMPACT OF SEASONAL FACTORS ON THE USE OF THE AI TOOL. THE AVERAGE DAILY ACCESS OF ALL AI TOOLS HAS FALLEN BACK DURING THE LEAVE PERIOD TO THE LEVEL OF AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER, ALTHOUGH THESE DATA ARE GRADUALLY RISING AS THE LEAVE ENDS。
However, the central reason for the drop in the heat of ChatGPT, excluding seasonal factors, is the increasing sophistication of the competitive function. Independent test results show that Claude Code performed better than ChatGPT when dealing with complex code tasks, while Gemini gained advantage in generating authentic AI images。
In the face of the current situation of market share encroachment, OpenAI is making a careful internal assessment of commercial strategies to introduce advertising. However, progress on this plan has been difficult. Corporate management is now concerned that, at a critical time when consumers are beginning to tend to think that competitions such as Gemini are better experienced, the pretentious placement of advertisements in ChatGPT may further provoke core users and thereby accelerate the loss of users。