ChatGPT Defends AI Crown as Google Unleashes Gemini 2.5

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ChatGPT held its dominant 43% market share in February, even as Google’s new Gemini 2.5 ranked second in coding tasks and DeepSeek gained serious ground.

ChatGPT Defends AI Crown as Google Unleashes Gemini 2.5

ChatGPT is still sitting pretty at the top of the AI throne. Despite a flurry of competition, OpenAI’s chatbot held a commanding 43% market share in February, according to aitools.xyz. Meanwhile, Google has fired back with Gemini 2.5—its “most intelligent” model yet.

Google Rolls Out Gemini 2.5 in Web Dev Showdown

On March 25, Google rolled out Gemini 2.5 Pro for developers, describing it as a “thinking model” built to reason through complex problems. It’s already putting up numbers. The model scored second on LMArena’s WebDev leaderboard with 1267.70 points—beating Grok, DeepSeek, and even ChatGPT—but trailing behind Claude 3.7 Sonnet from Anthropic.

DeepSeek Surges in Popularity as AI Race Heats Up

While ChatGPT still dominates with over 5.2 billion monthly visits, other players are catching up fast. DeepSeek now ranks third with 6.6% market share and a staggering 195% growth rate in February. But for now, ChatGPT’s lead is safe—at least until the next wave of AI model upgrades hits the scene.

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