March 31, - A new report released by aitools.xyz, an analytics platform focusing on the artificial intelligence (AI) space, has revealed that Chinese AI startups, reports IndiaTimes DeepSeek is rising at an astonishing rate to become the world's fastest-growing AI tool, with new site visits in February 2025 surpassing those of industry giant OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Specifically.DeepSeek recorded 524.7 million new site visits in February 2025, compared to ChatGPT's 500 million new visits during the same period.
1AI notes that despite achieving an outperformance in new visits, theBut DeepSeek is still third in overall sizeDeepSeek's market share is growing strongly, however, according to aitools.xyz. However, DeepSeek's growth is strong in terms of market share trends. aitools.xyz shows that DeepSeek's market share grew from 2.34% to 6.58% in February, indicating that it is gaining more and more acceptance from users around the world. Its chatbot had 792.6 million total visits in February, including 136.5 million unique users.
Looking at the AI industry as a whole, total global visits to AI tools reached 12.05 billion in February 2025, attracting 3.06 billion unique visitors to interact with various AI tools.
Data from aitools.xyz also shows that DeepSeek held a market share of 12.12% in the chatbot market in February 2025, ranking second only to ChatGPT.
