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since Jul 7, 2026 — the archive era

the record book

all-time highs, biggest single-day moves, longest streaks — every record the AI market has set since we started keeping score.

records span our archive (daily snapshots since Jul 7, 2026), not all of AI history — and they measure share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.

computed 2026-07-19 · records checked daily

01 · set today

records set today

no records fell today — the market held. every mark in the book below survived the latest session.

02 · the book

the standing records

ChatGPT archive low

67.9%
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.

Gemini archive high

11.0%
Gemini
Sep 27, 2026

Highest global daily share Gemini has recorded since Jul 7, 2026 (last touched Sep 27, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

Claude archive high

5.1%
Claude
Jul 29, 2026

Highest global daily share Claude has recorded since Jul 7, 2026 (last touched Jul 29, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

DeepSeek archive high

4.2%
DeepSeek
Sep 20, 2026

Highest global daily share DeepSeek has recorded since Jul 7, 2026 (last touched Sep 20, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

Grok archive high

3.7%
Grok
Aug 15, 2026

Highest global daily share Grok has recorded since Jul 7, 2026 (last touched Aug 15, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

Kimi archive high

3.7%
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.

Meta AI archive high

2.8%
Meta AI
Sep 20, 2026

Highest global daily share Meta AI has recorded since Jul 7, 2026 (last touched Sep 20, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

Character.AI archive high

2.0%
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.

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.

Biggest 7-day global riser

+1.5pp
ChatGPT
Oct 2, 2026

ChatGPT rose 74.3 → 75.8% of global search interest over the 7 days ending Oct 2, 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.

Most countries held as runner-up

58 countries
Gemini
Jul 19, 2026

Gemini is currently the #2 tool by search interest in 58 of the tracked countries — the widest runner-up footprint as of Jul 19, 2026 (archive 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 19, 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 19, 2026, archive since Jul 7, 2026). Share of Google search interest across the tracked tools — relative preference, not usage counts.

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