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ChatGPT still leads but its share is shrinking as Meta... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-search-is-fragmenting-ageing-and-filling-with-ads-tqnurixy3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TqNuriXY3.png og:image:alt: AI search is fragmenting, ageing and filling with ads og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI search is fragmenting, ageing and filling with ads **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Similarweb's 2026 Generative AI Landscape report reveals AI search is booming but fragmenting rapidly. ChatGPT still leads but its share is shrinking as Meta AI, Claude, Grok, and Perplexity surge. The user base is ageing into the mainstream — under-35s dropped from 61% to 50% of gen-AI users in two years — while a younger cohort actively opts out toward AI-free tools like DuckDuckGo. Ads are arriving fast: ChatGPT's ad-carrying chats jumped from 14% to 26% in a single month. AI referral traffic is surging across verticals, and being recommended by an AI correlates with 2–4x more brand visits compared to rivals. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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