Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure
Summary
Traffic data from analytics firm Similarweb indicates that generative AI services now receive about 7 billion monthly web visits, putting them in the same league as major social networks. OpenAI’s ChatGPT accounts for nearly 80% of this traffic and ranks among the world’s top five websites, while competing services from Google, Anthropic and others show rapid growth, suggesting conversational AI is becoming a foundational layer of how users navigate and search the web.
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