GIGAZINE readers' AI usage rate has finally surpassed 80%! Which AIs are the most used and which are gaining momentum?



With the spread of AI, various AI and AI tools have emerged, but a question that arises is, ' Which AI are people actually using? ' We investigated the trends in who is using which AI through

a summer gift survey in 2026 .

The AI usage rate among GIGAZINE readers is as follows: 83% of users use AI, while 17% do not.



The AI usage rate among GIGAZINE readers

was 63% in the gift survey conducted in December 2025 and 79% in the gift survey conducted in April 2026. This indicates a steady increase in AI users, and in this latest gift survey (end of July 2026), it has finally exceeded 80%.



The following is a summary of the results of a survey asking GIGAZINE readers about the AI they use regularly. As with the previous survey, ChatGPT and Gemini are overwhelmingly the most popular.



The following is a ranking of AIs popular among GIGAZINE readers. The numbers next to each AI indicate its ranking change since

the last survey . A notable feature is the clear increase in users of Claude, Anthropic's generated AI.

1st place: ChatGPT
2nd place: Gemini
3rd place: Claude(↑2)
4th place: Microsoft Copilot
5th place: Nothing in particular (↓2)
6th place: Grok
7th place: Other (↑1)
8th place: Perplexity(↓1)
9th place: DeepSeek
10th place: Meta AI
11th place: My AI
12th place: Character.AI
13th place: Replika

The image below shows a word cloud of the 'Other' responses. Qwen , an open weight model developed by Alibaba in China that has been downloaded more than 3 billion times in the past 6 months; Kimi , developed by Moonshot AI in China; Gemma, an open model developed by Google that has been downloaded more than 1 billion times; Cursor, an AI coding tool acquired by SpaceX ; and Duck.ai, an AI chatbot interface provided by the search engine DuckDuckGo , all of which received a particularly large number of responses.



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