DeepSeek ranks as the second-largest AI research laboratory globally

With the release of its new R1 model, DeepSeek has risen to become the world’s second-largest AI lab, marking its leadership in the open-source domain. According to the latest report from Artificial Analysis, DeepSeek-R1-0528 scored 68 points on the AI Analysis Index, tying with Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and surpassing competitors such as xAI, Meta, and Anthropic. The model achieved significant improvements across multiple evaluation benchmarks, including programming and mathematics capabilities. Praised for its outstanding cost-performance ratio, it has been dubbed the “king of value” with a price of $0.96 per million tokens.