DeepSeek DeepSeek R1-0528 vs xAI Grok‑2 — side-by-side specs.
DeepSeek DeepSeek R1-0528 | xAI Grok‑2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | DeepSeek | xAI |
| Release date | May 28 2025 | Aug 14 2024 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | No |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | — |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | — |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Grok‑2 shipped 287 days before DeepSeek R1-0528 | |
DeepSeek R1-0528 and Grok‑2 do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. Grok‑2 shipped 287 days before DeepSeek R1-0528, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
DeepSeek R1-0528 is an open-source / open-weight model; Grok‑2 is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.