DeepSeek Dethrones ChatGPT

The mobile app for DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, skyrocketed to the No. 1 spot in app stores around the globe topping the U.S.-based AI chatbot, ChatGPT. On iOS, DeepSeek is currently the No. 1 free app in the U.S. App Store and 51 other countries. The rapid rise of DeepSeek in the app stores’ Top Charts follows its meteoric rise in popularity resulting from the release of a series of open AI models that are competitive with leading offerings from OpenAI and Google. However, compared to other frontier AI models, DeepSeek claims its models were trained for just a fraction of the price with significantly worse AI chips. DeepSeek’s mobile app had just a million downloads across both the App Store and Google Play. That number has since doubled to 2.6 million downloads of DeepSeek’s mobile app across both platforms. The app currently sits in the Top 10 list for free apps in 111 countries on the App Store and in 18 countries on Google Play.