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State of AI — July 2026

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Gemini gained the most global search share (+1.8pp); ChatGPT gave up the most (-2.3pp).

live report · data through Jul 19, 2026 · rebuilt daily at 06:30

01 · the month's race

Every tool, month start vs latest

All 26 tracked tools, sorted by how much global search share they have gained or lost so far this month. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.

#toolJul 1, 2026latest · Jul 19, 2026Δ share
01Gemini
Google
8.6%10.4%▲ +1.8pp
02Kimi
Moonshot AI
0.2%1.4%▲ +1.2pp
03Grok
xAI
2.6%3.5%▲ +0.9pp
04Character.AI
Character
1.1%1.4%▲ +0.3pp
05Qwen
Alibaba
0.7%0.8%— +0.1pp
06Leonardo.Ai
Canva
0.1%0.2%— +0.1pp
07Luma
Luma AI
0.1%0.2%— +0.1pp
08Mistral
Mistral AI
0.1%0.2%— +0.1pp
09Sora
OpenAI
0.1%0.2%— +0.1pp
10Janitor AI
JanitorAI
0.5%0.6%— +0.1pp
11Replit
Replit
0.2%0.3%— +0.1pp
12Veo
Google
0.2%0.3%— +0.1pp
13ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs
0.6%0.6%— +0.0pp
14Midjourney
Midjourney
0.3%0.3%— +0.0pp
15NotebookLM
Google
1.6%1.6%— +0.0pp
16Runway
Runway
0.2%0.2%— +0.0pp
17Suno
Suno
0.5%0.5%— +0.0pp
18Cursor
Anysphere
0.3%0.2%— -0.1pp
19Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft
0.6%0.5%— -0.1pp
20Poe
Quora
0.1%0.0%— -0.1pp
21GitHub Copilot
GitHub
0.6%0.3%▼ -0.3pp
22Perplexity
Perplexity
0.6%0.3%▼ -0.3pp
23DeepSeek
DeepSeek
2.6%2.3%▼ -0.3pp
24Meta AI
Meta
1.7%1.2%▼ -0.5pp
25Claude
Anthropic
5.1%4.3%▼ -0.8pp
26ChatGPT
OpenAI
70.7%68.4%▼ -2.3pp

global daily share of search interest, month start vs latest; 21 of 26 tools moved ≥0.1pp. Full race chart on the compare page.

02 · country shifts

The biggest country-level moves

Top 10 per-country tool moves of the month. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.

#countrytoolshare moveΔ
01ChinaChatGPT68.6% → 56.8%▼ -11.8pp
02RussiaDeepSeek37.6% → 29.0%▼ -8.6pp
03RussiaQwen0.0% → 8.4%▲ +8.4pp
04UkraineChatGPT63.1% → 70.0%▲ +6.9pp
05UkraineCharacter.AI6.7% → 0.0%▼ -6.7pp
06ChinaDeepSeek21.6% → 15.2%▼ -6.4pp
07NetherlandsChatGPT80.9% → 76.0%▼ -4.9pp
08New ZealandClaude4.5% → 0.0%▼ -4.5pp
09United KingdomChatGPT78.9% → 74.5%▼ -4.4pp
10ChinaClaude0.0% → 4.3%▲ +4.3pp

moves of ≥1pp between the month's first and last archive snapshot (Jul 7, 2026 → Jul 21, 2026). Single-country Trends series are noisier than the global blend — read big moves as signals, small ones as weather.

03 · records set

Records hit during July 2026

13 archive records have been set or re-touched this month. Archive-era records only — the record book started Jul 7, 2026, so early months set many “firsts”.

Claude archive high

5.1%
Claude
Jul 8, 2026

Highest global daily share Claude has recorded since Jul 7, 2026 (last touched Jul 8, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

NotebookLM archive high

1.7%
NotebookLM
Jul 8, 2026

Highest global daily share NotebookLM has recorded since Jul 7, 2026 (last touched Jul 8, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

DeepSeek archive high

2.9%
DeepSeek
Jul 10, 2026

Highest global daily share DeepSeek has recorded since Jul 7, 2026 (last touched Jul 10, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

Biggest one-day country jump

+7.5pp
Claude · Ukraine
Jul 11, 2026

Claude jumped 0.0 → 7.5% of Ukraine's search interest in one day (Jul 11, 2026) — the biggest single-day country move recorded since Jul 7, 2026. Moves under 0.5pp are filtered as sampling noise. Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

Gemini archive high

10.6%
Gemini
Jul 12, 2026

Highest global daily share Gemini has recorded since Jul 7, 2026 (last touched Jul 12, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

Character.AI archive high

1.4%
Character.AI
Jul 19, 2026

Highest global daily share Character.AI has recorded since Jul 7, 2026 (last touched Jul 19, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

Grok archive high

3.5%
Grok
Jul 19, 2026

Highest global daily share Grok has recorded since Jul 7, 2026 (last touched Jul 19, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

Kimi archive high

1.4%
Kimi
Jul 19, 2026

Highest global daily share Kimi has recorded since Jul 7, 2026 (last touched Jul 19, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

ChatGPT archive low

68.4%
ChatGPT
Jul 19, 2026

Lowest global daily share the leader has recorded since Jul 7, 2026 (last touched Jul 19, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

Longest current daily rise streak

4 days
Kimi
Jul 19, 2026

Kimi's global share has risen 4 days in a row (+1.3pp cumulative, through Jul 19, 2026) — the longest active streak in the archive window since Jul 7, 2026. Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

Biggest 7-day global riser

+1.2pp
Kimi
Jul 19, 2026

Kimi rose 0.2 → 1.4% of global search interest over the 7 days ending Jul 19, 2026 — the biggest 7-day climb in the archive window since Jul 7, 2026. Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

Highest single-country concentration

35.6%
Gemini · Indonesia
Jul 21, 2026

Gemini holds 35.6% of Indonesia's search interest — the strongest single-country base any non-ChatGPT tool has right now (as of Jul 21, 2026, archive since Jul 7, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

Most countries held as runner-up

58 countries
Gemini
Jul 21, 2026

Gemini is currently the #2 tool by search interest in 58 of the tracked countries — the widest runner-up footprint as of Jul 21, 2026 (archive since Jul 7, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

records span our archive era, never “all of AI history”. The archive era began Jul 7, 2026. The full book lives at the record book.

04 · the news that moved markets

Top 5 stories by market reaction

Correlation, not causation — a share move next to a headline is circumstantial evidence, not proof.

Jul 10, 2026 · OpenAI News · ChatGPT, Sora

Jul 8, 2026 · OpenAI News · ChatGPT, Sora

Jul 9, 2026 · OpenAI News · ChatGPT, Sora

Jul 10, 2026 · Google Keyword Blog - Gemini · Gemini, NotebookLM

Jul 10, 2026 · Hugging Face Blog · DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi

reaction = the linked tools’ combined global search-share move over the 7 days after publication. Of the month’s 90 archived items, these 5 sat next to the largest moves. The full wire is at /tracker/news.

05 · methodology

How this report is made

This page is generated by a script, on the day stamped above, from the tracker’s own data files — no human wrote these numbers and no language model summarized them. Shares are anchor-normalized Google Trends search interest across 26 AI tools and 85 countries (share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts). The race table reads the global daily series; country shifts read the daily snapshot archive; records read the record book; news reactions read the wire’s baked 7-day deltas. A live report re-bakes every morning until the month closes, then freezes as FINAL.

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