🏆 Gemini, Grok catching ChatGPT?

Thursday’s AI Report

• 1. 🏆 Gemini, Grok catching ChatGPT?
• 2. 📧 Manage your inbox with Superhuman
• 3. 🌍 How AI boosted customer engagement and spending
• 4. 🔏 Protect your online info with Incogni
• 5. 💡 Partner Perspectives
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 7. 🚨 AI handling 74% of 911 calls?
• 8. 🤝 OpenAI and Anthropic unite on safety
• 9. 📑 Recommended resources

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❓Thursday’s Partner Perspective: Are you spending enough time shaping the context for AI or are you blaming the quality of the AI model for failures? Scroll down to find out what Founder of Linked Agency—Charlie Hills—thinks ⬇️

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Gemini, Grok catching ChatGPT?

🚨 Our Report

VC firm, a16z (founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz), published the 5th edition of its AI report—The Top 100 AI Consumer Apps—which showcases 2.5 years of data about how consumers are using AI products, from general assistance and companionship to image and video editing. Interestingly, it looks like Google’s Gemini and Elon Musk’s Grok are closing the gap on OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

🔓 Key Points

Google moved up four places to secure a spot on the “top AI consumer web products” list, and while ChatGPT remains the #1 app on mobile, Gemini is now #2—but with nearly half the amount of active monthly users.
Grok ranked 4th on the web and placed 23rd on mobile, but it went from having no app (it launched on X) and zero users in 2024, to having 20M in July 2025, with the release of Grok 4 bringing a 40% increase in users.
Chinese outlier, DeepSeek (makers of R1), saw its growth flatten on mobile and drop more than 40% on the web (from its peak in Feb 2025), and Anthropic’s Claude also saw mobile use flatten, but web use has grown.

🔐 Relevance

While the report highlighted who the “big dogs” are in the AI space, it also featured 14 newcomers in the mobile category and outlined some of the AI apps that were close to making it to the top AI apps list. Those included PixAI, Bolt, and Blackbox AI on the web, and Talkie, Seekee, and Photo AI on mobile. This, and the growth of Gemini and Grok, shows that there’s been a big shift in consumer dynamics—people appear to be open to adopting a wide variety of AI products, not just ChatGPT, for different purposes.

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Context Engineering is the Future

By Charlie Hills · Founder of Linked Agency
The AI Report Partner Perspectives Column

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How AI boosted customer engagement and spending

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Traditional advertising methods, like sending generic mass emails, weren’t driving customer loyalty or encouraging regular orders.
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Googling a name can reveal more than expected

Data brokers sell personal info—often for less than a dollar.

What’s publicly available:

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Family connections
Employment history
Property records
Court documents

This information is bundled and sold to anyone willing to pay. Even ChatGPT can return surprising details when asked about someone with an online presence.

This isn’t paranoia—it’s probability:

1 in 4 Americans experience identity theft
$1,100 average loss per incident
Over 200 hours to recover

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Public safety AI start-up—Aurelian—(which just secured $14M in Series A funding) has an AI voice assistant that’s handling 74% of non-emergency 911 calls in 12 US Emergency Communication Centers (ECCs).
This is saving each dispatch team member 3hrs p/d, while helping them to prioritize proper emergency cases. It’s also helping to solve severe ECC staffing shortages and increasing call volumes.
The AI voice assistant recognizes a real emergency and transfers it to a human dispatcher. For non-emergencies (eg, noise complaints or inquiries), it generates a report and sends it to the right department.

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Rivals OpenAI and Anthropic have joined forces and given each other access to their carefully guarded AI models so they can complete safety testing and surface blind spots in each company’s internal evaluations.
Anthropic’s models wouldn’t answer most questions if unsure of the answer, whereas OpenAI’s refused to far less—hallucinating more, and featured “extreme” sycophancy (reinforcement of bad behaviour to please users).
OpenAI co-founder, Wojciech Zaremba, believes this type of collaboration is crucial, ”as AI is entering a 'consequential development stage” and Anthropic also wants to continue to “increase collaboration.”

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