Google releases new AI model as ChatGPT retains 43% market share

Google introduced Gemini 2.5, its latest experimental artificial intelligence model; it ranked second in a competitive leaderboard for AI-driven web development tools.

On March 25, Google announced that it will allow developers to try out Gemini 2.5 Pro. The company described it as a thinking model capable of reasoning through thoughts before responding.

Google said this improves both accuracy and performance, particularly in coding, science and math tasks. It said Gemini 2.5 can support more context-aware agents. 

Citing self-reported data compiled by the AI benchmarking platform LMArena, Google shared that the new AI model topped the charts in reasoning and knowledge, science and mathematics. Google described Gemini 2.5 as its “most intelligent AI model.” 

Google’s new AI model ranked second in LMArena’s WebDev leaderboard, a real-time AI coding competition where models compete in web development challenges created by the AI benchmarking platform. 

The AI model had an arena score of 1267.70, which surpassed competitors including DeepSeek, Grok and ChatGPT. Still, the top spot went to Anthropic’s AI model Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which had an arena score of 1354.01.

Leaderboard for AI web development competition. Source: LMArena

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While many companies are working to improve their models’ performances, OpenAI’s ChatGPT continues to dominate the AI tools market. 

In 2024, the AI chatbot recorded more than 40 billion yearly visits, representing a market share of nearly 40%. Data from AI statistics and usage trends platform aitools.xyz showed that overall, the AI tools market had 101 billion visits throughout the year. Canva’s AI generator came in second place, with 10.4 billion visits, gaining a 10.25% market share. 

AI tools market share distribution. Source: aitools.xyz

More recently, new contenders in the AI tools market have surfaced. In February, the data showed that DeepSeek’s AI tools climbed in popularity and now rank third with a 6.58% market share. DeepSeek also ranks first in the Trending list, recording a growth rate of 195% and monthly visits of 792 million. 

Despite this, ChatGPT continues to dominate the space, with a 43% market share in February and 5.2 billion monthly visits. 

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