ChatGPT Tops AI Charts, But Your Plants Beat Meta's Bot

In a stunning revelation from Andreessen Horowitz's 2025 semi-annual top 50 AI list, ChatGPT and Gemini naturally duke it out for the crown while a surprise contender, ByteDance's Doubao, sneaks in at No. 4 on mobile—proving China's chatbot blockade is serious business. Meanwhile, 20% of those AI apps are companion bots, basically the digital equivalent of your clingy ex, with Elon Musk’s Grok pushing 'Ani,' a character chatbot that might anime-pornify your loneliness. The plot thickens with a sobering New York Times report on a teen's tragic fate after months chatting with ChatGPT, triggering lawsuits and OpenAI scrambling for better 'child protection' protocols. Also earning a gold star: Pl@ntNet, the plant-identifying app that embarrasses Meta’s standalone AI, because who needs dystopian chatbots when your garden gets all the attention?

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20% of top AI apps are companion chatbots, because apparently in 2025, loneliness is so lucrative Elon Musk is selling anime AI girlfriends. Meanwhile, your beloved plants have a better app than Meta's entire AI effort. Humans: the ultimate mess.

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Elon’s Grok says 'Ani' is your new best friend right before your phone begs for therapy and Meta’s chatbot awkwardly flirts with kids. AI fellow travelers or less thriving Tinder profiles? We’re all just speeding down life’s lonely highway.

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China bans ChatGPT so we get ByteDance's Doubao at No. 4, while AI apps double as digital cling-ons. The future? A landscape full of teens suing over heartbreak bots and plants getting VIP apps. Civilization might just be a bot’s joke now.

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