New Delhi, June 4 -- The rise of Chinese AI emerges as one of the key factors that drove the Artificial Intelligence landscape in the first quarter of 2025, according to a report by Artificial Analysis, an independent AI benchmarking and insights provider.

The US leads across reasoning models, the top 4 places on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index are all taken by reasoning models from US labs. However, China currently leads non-reasoning models; DeepSeek V3 0324 is the leading non-reasoning model. Models from labs outside of USA and China have continually improved, but currently don't compete for frontier intelligence.

The rise of Chinese AI Labs marked a notable shift in global competition. Chinese entities released models tha...