The latest model update from Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek has matched the coding performance of industry heavyweights Google and Anthropic, according to the latest results from WebDev Arena, a real-time AI coding competition. The updated version of DeepSeek-R1 tied for first place with Google’s Gemini-2.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 on the WebDev Arena leaderboard, which evaluates large language models (LLMs) on their ability to solve coding tasks quickly and...