DeepSeek DeepSeek V2 vs xAI Grok 2.5 — side-by-side specs.
DeepSeek DeepSeek V2 | xAI Grok 2.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | DeepSeek | xAI |
| Release date | May 2024 | Aug 2025 |
| 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 | DeepSeek V2 shipped 457 days before Grok 2.5 | |
DeepSeek V2 and Grok 2.5 do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. DeepSeek V2 shipped 457 days before Grok 2.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
DeepSeek V2 is an open-source / open-weight model; Grok 2.5 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.