36氪·2026-01-05 13:35Core Insights - The article presents the 17th edition of the AI Product Rankings, focusing on the current state of AI applications as of December 2025, analyzing them through the lenses of scale, growth, and structure [9]. Global Rankings - ChatGPT remains the dominant AI application globally with 884.96 million MAU, showing a month-over-month growth of 14.1% [11][48]. - The top five AI applications in the global rankings also include four Chinese products: Doubao, Quark, Baidu Wangpan, and DeepSeek, with Doubao having 163.16 million MAU [12][48]. - Despite the high number of Chinese applications, ChatGPT's MAU is approximately five times that of Doubao, indicating a lack of a comparable "super entry" in the Chinese market [13][14]. Domestic Rankings - In the domestic market, the top five applications are Doubao (163.16 million MAU), Quark (147.84 million MAU), Baidu Wangpan (142.06 million MAU), DeepSeek (131.48 million MAU), and Tencent Yuanbao (84.38 million MAU) [15][36]. - The commonality among these top applications is their origin from major tech companies, highlighting the importance of established platforms in capturing high-frequency usage scenarios [16][17]. Growth Rankings - The most notable growth in global MAU was seen in xMate, which increased by 44 times, followed by Music AI with a 16-fold increase [18][19]. - In the domestic market, DeepSeek achieved a remarkable 89.53% growth in MAU, indicating its strong structural significance [23]. International Expansion - ByteDance's Doubao AI assistant, now rebranded as Dola, reached 53.63 million MAU with a growth of 4.72% [25][39]. - Many products in the international market focus on specific use cases, achieving significant breakthroughs in areas like video generation and efficiency tools [25][26]. User Behavior Insights - Two critical questions determine the sustainability of AI products: whether users are experimenting or forming habits, and whether growth is driven by marketing or the product itself [28]. - Products that consistently appear in both new user download rankings and MAU growth rankings are likely to have found product-market fit (PMF) [28]. Subscription Revenue Rankings - The subscription revenue rankings indicate that ChatGPT leads with an annualized revenue of $198.48 million, followed by Grok and Claude with $4.71 million and $2.98 million respectively [46][47].