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Moore: Chinese Video AI Models Outperform US Competitors Due to Unrestricted Data
“The Chinese models are so good, because they can train on any data. So, Seedance II is probably the best example of this, where it's just kind of, in some ways, head and shoulders above what the US companies have thus far been able to do.”
Moore: Big AI labs struggle to build opinionated consumer products
“In my opinion, we've gone through dozens of things that they've launched or tried as new consumer products or new consumer interfaces like group chat, like Pulse, like Atlas, like Sora. Google has had a long tail, like Stitch, Gems, Opal, Doppel, Tons. Yeah. N…”
Moore: Tech Giants Threaten Standalone Horizontal Consumer AI Apps
“I've generally been A little more cautious about the very, very horizontal consumer AI apps, just because it's probably both in scope for the bigger companies, and they have the advantage of already having IT approval and enterprise contracts and all of that.”
Moore: Teen AI Emotional Support Use Cases Will Reach 100% Adoption
“16% are using it for just, like, casual conversation. Like, not the intense companion products, but, like, just having someone to talk to. And then, 12% are using it for, like, emotional support and advice. I think all of these use cases will, like, asymptote …”
Moore: Every Tech Company Will Eventually Become an Agent Company
“I think that this is what's gonna happen with agents, where ultimately, like, every tech company was a dot com company. Like, I think ultimately every AI company and then every tech company is going to be an agenda company, because that's just where the models…”
Moore: Voice AI Pins Will Reach Mainstream Consumers in 6–9 Months
“Whether that's voice dictation, whether that's like a voice pin that answers questions or does tasks for you, I think that is going to spread to the mainstream consumer in the next six to nine months.”
Moore: AI Memory Will Render Software Onboarding Obsolete Within Two Years
“Whether it's their own memory or, like, ChatGPT lending memory, any product that you start to use two years from now, if it doesn't immediately feel like it knows you, it will feel broken. Like, the concept of, like, onboarding to a product should not be somet…”
Moore: ChatGPT reaches 800M-900M weekly active users in late 2025
“If we had to call it now, ChatGPT is currently in the lead, by far, at 800 to nine hundred million weekly active users.”
Moore: Perplexity Comet browser launch traffic surpassed ChatGPT Atlas
“If you look at the data, like the spike at launch and the sustained traffic for Comet was actually much higher than for ChatGBT's own browser launch, Atlas, which is kind of crazy given how much more distribution ChatGBT has than Perplexity.”
Moore: Top consumer AI startups reach 100%+ net revenue retention
“Which is why we're also seeing, like, consumer products for the first time ever have more than a hundred percent revenue retention.”
Moore: Voice AI outperforms humans in financial compliance adherence
“But it turns out this is an area where voice AI actually outperforms because humans are actually very good at violating compliance and regulations and voice AI can get it every time.”
Olivia Moore: Consumer AI startups reach $4.2M median ARR in Year 1
“What we found was actually pretty surprising, which is that the median ARR, annualized revenue run rate, is now 4.2 million dollars at month 12 for consumer startups. The bottom quartile is 2.9 million. And the top quartile is 8.7 million.”
Olivia Moore: Consumer AI startup revenue grows twice as fast as B2B
“And the even more surprising thing is those numbers are twice as high as the B to B benchmarks in the AI era.”
Olivia Moore: Paid retention for consumer AI matches pre-AI benchmarks
“But if you look at it on a paid user basis, so once you actually subscribe, consumer AI companies are retaining at the median pretty much just as well. As pre-AI consumer companies, which is really exciting.”
Olivia Moore: AI social networks fail because they lack real emotional stakes
“To work, a social network has to have, like, real emotional stakes. And if you can generate the content in a way that you like it, and you always look amazing, and you always look happy, and you're always in a cool background, like, it doesn't have the same se…”
Olivia Moore: Studies show Replika AI app reduces depression and anxiety
“Actual studies were showing depression and anxiety and kind of suicidal ideation were going down in users.”
Moore: Chinese AI video models rely on less copyright-sensitive training data
“The models are less copyright sensitive in their training data.”
Moore: Chinese AI video models outperformed expectations relative to capital raised
“Sora in some ways was a little bit disappointing for some people in, and whereas like the Chinese video models were maybe better than a lot of people expected, given the relative lack of capital that they've raised.”
Moore: Building basic AI voice agents has commoditized
“And the next wave that we're starting to see is a lot more verticalized, and I think it makes sense because the ability to build a voice agent has kind of commoditized.”
Moore: Job candidates often prefer AI interviewers over human recruiters
“And what we find is that a lot of candidates would actually prefer talking to an AI interviewer than talking to a human recruiter that maybe has to take 10 calls that day, is tired, is in a bad mood, doesn't really have the technical... Hasn't eaten lunch.”
Moore: AI voice companions offer superior availability and empathy to human friends
“Like, in many cases, the AI is more human than the human. For sure. Even your best friend, if you give them a call, they might be busy. They're at work. They're having a bad day. Are they actually gonna listen to every single word that you're saying and respon…”
Moore: Businesses expect 70% discount when replacing human agents with AI
“And then I would say this gets back to the constrained point, but even though the voice agent is still probably doing better than your human agents, most businesses don't want to pay that much for it because it is AI and they see it as a way to cut costs. So i…”
Moore: Consumer AI voice products require conversational friction to retain users
“This is actually, this gets at what we're looking for in voice companion products, or, but even any consumer voice agent, like, there has to be some friction. If it's, like, too easy to build the relationship, if they're always saying yes to you, if they're no…”
Consumers unknowingly pay third-party wrapper apps for free OpenAI models
“If you're a normal person who doesn't know the names of these models, you might not understand that, like, on this other app, you're paying for access to the free version of the OpenAI model that you would get on ChatGPT.”
Uncensored AI companion apps can reach 20 million monthly web visits
“They're growing, but maybe not the zero to twenty million monthly web visits that some of these uncensored companion apps can get.”
Moore: Anonymous social apps decay quickly without an explicit act two
“These apps that are based around kind of anonymous networks. Can you really build like a lasting social network? Because people aren't really storing relationships on the app. They're not really communicating or direct messaging through the app. So they get ve…”
Startups are intentionally archiving viral TikToks to throttle unmanageable app downloads
“And so we've seen actually a few startups I've talked to recently have started limiting their own virality, which sounds impossible because virality is theoretically organic. But what they'll do is if a video starts performing too well on TikTok, it gets too m…”
Moore: ChatGPT Is 30x Larger Than Claude on Web, 80x on Mobile
“On web, they're 2.7 times bigger than Gemini. On mobile, they're 2.5 times bigger than Gemini. And then, despite, again, like, the kind of tech Twitter discourse Claude, they're almost 30 times bigger than Claude on web, and almost 80 times bigger than Claude …”
Moore: Singapore Ranks #1 in Per-Capita AI Adoption, US Ranks #20
“So Singapore is number one. Then Hong Kong, then the UAE, then South Korea. The US is down at number 20, so not super low, not incredibly high. Russia and China are, like, very far down the list, like, sub 50.”
Moore: US Public Trust in AI Stands at Only 32%
“There was actually a big survey last year from Edelman the global media company. And the US had a fairly low rate of trust in AI. It was like, 32%.”
Moore: Roughly One-Third of Americans Use AI Tools Monthly
“Like in the US, it's around probably a third of people are, Monthly active users of something like a ChatGPT.”
Moore: No Single AI Video Model Will Dominate the Market
“The way video is shaping out, there's, it's unlikely to be like one model to rule them all, and so you kind of need to be able to switch between them.”
Moore: Manus Grew to $100M-$200M ARR in 6 to 9 Months
“The ramp that they reported from like zero to a 100,000,200 million ARR in the span of like, honestly, six, nine months is, is really kind of best in class.”
Moore: Perplexity Comet Peak Download Traffic Reached 5x OpenAI Atlas
“If you look at kind of the highest spike for Comet and Atlas in terms of visits to the download page, Comet is five times ahead of Atlas”
Moore: Consumer AI in Finance and Healthcare Will Explode Shortly
“But I think it does unlock a lot of these other consumer use cases of AI, like finance, healthcare travel planning, complex shopping even, where pre-agents, there was just so much data you had to go out and grab. And do it reliably and do it across systems tha…”
Olivia Moore: Less than 10% of ChatGPT users tried rival LLMs in 2025
“For most of the year, less than 10% of ChatGPT users even visited another one of the big LLM providers.”
Moore: Only 9% of AI users subscribe to multiple major LLMs
“So only nine percent of consumers are paying for more than one out of the group of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Cursor.”
Moore: Gemini desktop users growing 155% year over year and accelerating
“With the launch of new viral models like Nano Banana, Gemini is now growing desktop users a 155% year over year, which is actually accelerating even as they reach more scale, which is pretty crazy to see.”
Moore: ChatGPT year-over-year growth slowed to 23%
“And ChatGPT is only growing 23% year over year.”
Olivia Moore: Native audio integration drove Veo 3's viral success
“It's kind of like the VO three moment when I don't think it was intuitive to people that video would be cracked necessarily by bringing audio together with video in the same place. And that ended up being the thing that made AI video go viral.”
Olivia Moore: Gemini hits 50% of ChatGPT scale on Android, 17% on iOS
“Like, if you look at Android, Gemini is at, like, 50% of ChatGPT's scale on mobile, whereas on iOS it's, like, 17%.”
Olivia Moore: AI content undermines traditional social status games
“And when it's AI generated content and people know it's not real, like a real representation of you as a human being, the status game is lost a little bit.”
Moore: Voice AI startups add fake background noise to seem human
“Actually, in some cases, I've heard of voice agent companies slowing down their agent or introducing background noise to make it sound more like a human.”
Google Gemini reaches half of ChatGPT's mobile app traffic
“Gemini was number two. It was right behind ChatGPT. It has just about 10% of ChatGPT's traffic on web, but it's much closer on mobile. It's like half of ChatGPT's traffic on the mobile app, which is interesting. It's mostly Android users, which I think you wou…”
Manus hits $90M ARR with top traffic from Brazil and US
“Manus is a great example. They just announced a ninety million annualized run rate. And if you look at their traffic, it's number one Brazil, number two US, and number three China.”
Vibe coding platforms see over 100% revenue retention in first months
“And we put some of this in the report, but what we found for many of the leading vibe coding platforms, Is they actually see a hundred percent or above, ah, revenue retention in the first three months, and then maybe flatten out, ah, a bit below, ah, a hundred…”
Olivia Moore: Backlash over 'Sky' voice spooked OpenAI from releasing human-sounding AI
“I honestly think a big part of it might have been when they first released advanced voice mode, if you remember all the controversy around her, And was this gonna be a, you know, a companion that replaced humans, and some of what people would think of as kind …”