The latest report released by aitools.xyz, an analytics platform focused on the field of artificial intelligence (AI), shows that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is rising at an astonishing rate to become the world's fastest-growing AI tool, surpassing industry giant OpenAI's ChatGPT in new website visits in February 2025. Specifically, DeepSeek recorded 525 million new website visits in February 2025, while ChatGPT had 500 million new visits in the same period. From the perspective of the entire AI industry, the total number of visits to AI tools worldwide reached 12.05 billion in February 2025, attracting 3.06 billion unique visitors to interact with various AI tools.