monthly report · auto-computed from tracker data
FINAL
Gemini gained the most global search share (+0.7pp); ChatGPT gave up the most (-2.0pp).
final — the month is closed · covers Sep 1, 2026 → Sep 29, 2026
01 · the month's race
All 26 tracked tools, sorted by how much global search share they gained or lost over the month. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.
| # | tool | Sep 1, 2026 | month end · Sep 29, 2026 | Δ share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Gemini Google | 8.7% | 9.4% | ▲ +0.7pp |
| 02 | DeepSeek DeepSeek | 1.7% | 2.4% | ▲ +0.7pp |
| 03 | Grok xAI | 1.7% | 2.4% | ▲ +0.7pp |
| 04 | Meta AI Meta | 0.9% | 1.2% | ▲ +0.3pp |
| 05 | Janitor AI JanitorAI | 0.3% | 0.4% | — +0.1pp |
| 06 | ElevenLabs ElevenLabs | 0.4% | 0.5% | — +0.1pp |
| 07 | Midjourney Midjourney | 0.2% | 0.3% | — +0.1pp |
| 08 | Claude Anthropic | 4.2% | 4.2% | — +0.0pp |
| 09 | Cursor Anysphere | 0.1% | 0.1% | — +0.0pp |
| 10 | Kimi Moonshot AI | 0.1% | 0.1% | — +0.0pp |
| 11 | Leonardo.Ai Canva | 0.1% | 0.1% | — +0.0pp |
| 12 | Mistral Mistral AI | 0.1% | 0.1% | — +0.0pp |
| 13 | Perplexity Perplexity | 0.3% | 0.3% | — +0.0pp |
| 14 | Poe Quora | 0.0% | 0.0% | — +0.0pp |
| 15 | Qwen Alibaba | 0.7% | 0.7% | — +0.0pp |
| 16 | Runway Runway | 0.1% | 0.1% | — +0.0pp |
| 17 | Sora OpenAI | 0.1% | 0.1% | — +0.0pp |
| 18 | Suno Suno | 0.3% | 0.3% | — +0.0pp |
| 19 | Veo Google | 0.1% | 0.1% | — +0.0pp |
| 20 | NotebookLM Google | 1.4% | 1.3% | — -0.1pp |
| 21 | GitHub Copilot GitHub | 0.3% | 0.2% | — -0.1pp |
| 22 | Luma Luma AI | 0.1% | 0.0% | — -0.1pp |
| 23 | Replit Replit | 0.2% | 0.1% | — -0.1pp |
| 24 | Microsoft Copilot Microsoft | 0.6% | 0.4% | ▼ -0.2pp |
| 25 | Character.AI Character | 0.9% | 0.7% | ▼ -0.2pp |
| 26 | ChatGPT OpenAI | 76.2% | 74.2% | ▼ -2.0pp |
global daily share of search interest, month start vs month end; 14 of 26 tools moved ≥0.1pp. Full race chart on the compare page.
02 · country shifts
Top 10 per-country tool moves of the month. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.
No country snapshot pair is available for this month — the daily country archive (history/tracker/) began on Jul 7, 2026, so months before that bake empty here. Where it exists, this section lists every tool move of ≥1pp between the month’s first and last snapshot.
03 · records set
2 archive records were set or re-touched this month. Archive-era records only — the record book started Jul 7, 2026, so early months set many “firsts”.
Longest current daily rise streak
ChatGPT's global share has risen 3 days in a row (+3.0pp cumulative, through Sep 29, 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
Gemini rose 7.7 → 9.4% of global search interest over the 7 days ending Sep 29, 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.
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
Correlation, not causation — a share move next to a headline is circumstantial evidence, not proof.
reaction = the linked tools’ combined global search-share move over the 7 days after publication. Of the month’s 217 archived items, these 5 sat next to the largest moves. The full wire is at /tracker/news.
05 · methodology
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. This month is closed: the report is frozen — the numbers on this page no longer change.
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