AI power rankings upended: OpenAI, Google rise as Anthropic falls, Poe report finds
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Summary
According to data released by platform Poe, which offers access to more than 100 AI models, significant market share shifts have occurred across all major AI categories between January and May 2025.
OpenAI’s GPT-4o maintained its commanding position with 35.8% of message share, while the company’s newer GPT-4.1 family quickly captured 9.4% of usage within weeks of launch.
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and DeepSeek have seen slower momentum as competitors release affordable verbose reasoning models.
The most significant trend identified in the report is the dramatic growth of specialised reasoning models, which have expanded from approximately 2% to 10% of all text messages sent on Poe since the beginning of 2025.
Video generation is the most computationally intensive consumer-facing AI application, with models requiring significant processing power to generate even short clips.
This AI landscape report suggests that businesses should focus on use cases rather than chasing the latest model releases while also building technical infrastructure for rapid adoption.