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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 2026-07-21 · 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

+1.2pp
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.

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.

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.

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.

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