China · 2024 · AI Applications

The Chinese AI application market may have started later than overseas markets, but it has been growing rapidly and has unique market characteristics. Compared to the diversified overseas market, the Chinese market has shown a certain degree of concentration in application types, with AI chatbots, AI search engines, and AI design tools as representative applications emerging first and dominating the market. However, overall, the Chinese AI application market is still in its early stages, with huge market potential.

The Chinese AI application market presents a pyramid-shaped structure. The user base of the top AI application types has reached tens of millions, while the user base of the tail application types is relatively smaller. This indicates that there is huge growth potential for the Chinese AI application market. From the growth rate perspective, the Chinese AI application market as a whole has shown a high growth trend, but the growth rates of different application types are quite different. Some application types have achieved explosive growth, while others have seen slower growth, or even a declining trend.

The Chinese AI application market has huge development potential and is currently in its infancy. It is expected that AI applications will emerge as a popular track in the tech industry, business sector, and investment community within the next three years. The continuous breakthrough of technology, the supportive policies, the active injection of capital, and the gradual maturity of the market will jointly drive the Chinese AI application market to usher in a new round of rapid development.

Among them, the Web end and mobile application (App) end each show unique advantages. The Web end AI application advantage lies in its cross-platform access capability, and users do not need to consider the limitations of devices or operating systems, and can easily access services through the Internet connection. This convenience provides consistent experiences for global users and reduces the complexity and cost of AI application development teams in developing and maintaining independent versions on multiple operating systems.

On the other hand, the widespread of mobile applications has provided huge market potential for AI applications. By 2024, the global number of smartphone users is expected to reach 7.4 billion. This huge user base provides excellent opportunities for the promotion and commercialization of AI applications.

AI chat machine human applications occupy a prominent position in the Top 50 AI applications on the APP side, the Web side and the APP+Web side. Especially in the Top 20 ranking of APP+Web side, the number of AI chatbot applications reached 9, accounting for 45%, which fully reflects the popularity and importance of chatbots in the current AI application market;

Web side preference: AI design tools, AI research and development tools, AI navigation websites, AI office tools and AI PPT production and other application types are more inclined to develop on the Web side. Among the Top 50 AI applications on the Web side, there are 9 AI design tool applications on the list, showing that users are more accustomed to the experience on the Web side when using these types of AI applications;

APP preference: On the other hand, types of applications such as AI educational learning, AI image editing, AI virtual characters, AI video creation, and AI design tools are more popular on the APP side. Among the Top 50 AI apps on the APP side, there are 8 AI education and learning apps and 5 AI image editing apps among them, which indicates that mobile users are more inclined to use these apps to obtain information and create.

APP+Web side preference: Some AI applications have a layout on both sides and have achieved synchronous development. For example, the types of AI chatbots, AI writing and AI image generation mentioned above all have corresponding AI applications entering the three lists at the same time, showing good development and user base.