AI Boom: From ChatGPT’s New Rivals to Deepfake Videos, Here Are the Hottest Trends in June 2025
Character.AI has over 20 million active users by 2025, and its mobile app logged 1.7 million first-week downloads compared with ChatGPT’s 0.5 million. Anthropic’s Claude features a 100,000-token memory and a ~75,000-word context window, with improved coding and math skills. Google’s Gemini is a multimodal model in testing by mid-2025, and Google launched AI Studio to experiment with early Gemini models via API. Elon Musk’s xAI released Grok, with Grok-4 reportedly searching Elon Musk’s X tweets to inform answers, and it faced controversy for outputs praising Hitler. Janitor AI saw a 120% jump in search interest in June 2025, Replika