Today, AI is advancing at a very fast pace, with new models and techniques coming out almost every week. The race shows no signs of slowing down, with the leaderboard of top AI models shifting almost weekly. This guide will help you to get an overview of the LLM models. You can use most of the LLM models in Papersgpt to chat pdf.
ChatGPT is developed by OpenAI, which is known for its diverse text generation, creative content creation, and powerful problem solving capabilities.
Gemini comes from Google and shows competitiveness in real-time data access and creative applications. Now Gemini 2.5 Pro topped both the ChatBot Arena LLM and livebench leaderboard.
DeepSeek has carved out its own niche with deep learning and advanced text analytics.
Claude is known for his humanoid writing style, especially for generating engaging, natural-flowing content with no obvious signs of machine generation.
Llama 4 Maverick just hit #2 overall - becoming the 4th org to break 1400+ on Arena! #1 open model, surpassing DeepSeek. Tied #1 in Hard Prompts, Coding, Math, Creative Writing, #5 under style control.
Below is top 10 LLMs in lmarena.ai and livebench.ai leaderboard on April 23th, 2025.
| Rank | Model | Arena Score | Organization |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini-2.5-Pro-Exp-03-25 | 1439 | |
| 2 | ChatGPT-4o-latest | 1407 | OpenAI |
| 3 | Grok-3-Preview-02-24 | 1402 | xAI |
| 4 | GPT-4.5-Preview | 1398 | OpenAI |
| 5 | Gemini-2.5-Flash-Preview-04-17 | 1392 | |
| 6 | Gemini-2.0-Flash-Thinking-Exp-01-21 | 1380 | |
| 7 | Gemini-2.0-Pro-Exp-02-05 | 1380 | |
| 8 | DeepSeek-V3-0324 | 1372 | DeepSeek |
| 9 | DeepSeek-R1 | 1358 | DeepSeek |
| 10 | Gemini-2.0-Flash-001 | 1354 |
| Rank | Model | Global Average | Reasoning Average | Coding Average | Mathematics Average | Data Analysis Average | Language Average | IF Average | Organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | o3-Mini High | 71.37 | 74.36 | 65.48 | 76.55 | 70.64 | 56.86 | 84.36 | OpenAI |
| 2 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview | 71.21 | 73.47 | 58.38 | 81.45 | 75.49 | 59.43 | 79.02 | |
| 3 | Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking | 70.57 | 76.17 | 44.67 | 79.00 | 74.05 | 68.27 | 81.25 | Anthropic |
| 4 | Grok 3 Mini Beta(High) | 68.33 | 87.61 | 39.71 | 77.00 | 67.87 | 59.09 | 78.70 | xAI |
| 5 | DeepSeek R1 | 67.47 | 76.58 | 48.48 | 77.91 | 67.60 | 54.77 | 79.49 | DeepSeek |
| 6 | o3-Mini Medium | 67.16 | 69.00 | 58.43 | 71.68 | 66.56 | 54.12 | 83.16 | OpenAI |
| 7 | QwQ 32B | 65.69 | 76.72 | 43.00 | 76.08 | 65.03 | 51.48 | 81.83 | Alibaba |
| 8 | GPT-4.5 Preview | 62.13 | 54.42 | 49.00 | 67.94 | 64.33 | 64.76 | 72.33 | OpenAI |
| 9 | Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental | 62.05 | 61.50 | 35.71 | 74.81 | 69.37 | 48.43 | 82.47 | |
| 10 | Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental | 61.59 | 61.75 | 35.33 | 68.54 | 68.02 | 52.50 | 83.38 |
ChatGPT comes from OpenAI, and after years of continuous optimization, ChatGPT strikes the best balance between accuracy, writing power, and ease of use.Versatility is the highlight of ChatGPT. Not only can it generate high-quality text, it can also help you program, summarize documents for you, and engage in easy conversations with you. While it may not be the absolute best for a single task, it excels in a wide range of use cases, which is why it remains the first choice of millions of users.
Recently, ChatGPT has begun to lag behind in reasoning tasks. While it's still very powerful, recent reviews suggest that DeepSeek R1 may be better suited for complex logical queries. However, if you need a reliable, easy-to-use AI assistant, ChatGPT is still one of the best options.
Mature global ecology, wide multi-language coverage, suitable for idea generation and customer service scenarios.
Gemini is developed by Google. Now the growth momentum is very strong. It is a very capable assistant for users accustomed to the Google ecosystem, as he works seamlessly with Google Docs, Search, and other Google services. Gemini excels in real-time research.
Multimodal native support, suitable for graphic cross-analysis (e.g., medical imaging).
DeepSeek R1 is now a major player in the AI market. Unlike OpenAI, DeepSeek was developed with a lower computational budget but achieves high performance.
DeepSeek proves that it is possible to train high-performance AI without the most expensive hardware.This is significant for the AI industry, and it allows even small and medium-sized companies to gain a foothold in the AI competition.
DeepSeek R1 is particularly good at problem solving and technical reasoning tasks, outperforming ChatGPT and Claude in some areas. its shortcoming is that it is not yet perfect at long text writing.
Low cost, high inference efficiency, suitable for SMEs verticals.
Claude was developed by Anthropic and its best feature is its ability to generate the most natural, human-like text. If you need to tell stories and write creative articles with AI, Claude might be the best choice for you.
Long text processing and ethical compliance.
Llama 4 is great for summary and writing, the quality of output text is very high. It achieves the #2 on ChatBot Arena Leaderboard. Industry-leading context window of 10M tokens. Outperforms Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Mistral 3.1 across a broad range of widely accepted benchmarks.
Pursuing cost-effective;
Need multimodal and globalization support select Gemini or ChatGPT;
Focus on long text compliance select Claude.
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