DeepSeek reaches No. 1 on US Play Store

Chinese language AI lab DeepSeek‘s Android app has taken the No. 1 spot on the Google Play Retailer, mere days after the corporate’s chatbot app clinched the highest spot on the Apple App Retailer.

In response to app analytics agency AppFigures, since its launch in mid-January, the DeepSeek app has been downloaded over 1.2 million instances on the Play Retailer and over 1.9 million instances on the App Retailer internationally. Notably, the precise variety of installs may very well be increased as DeepSeek has a label indicating over 5 million downloads on the Play Retailer.

The speedy rise of DeepSeek within the charts follows a sudden rise in reputation ensuing from the discharge of a sequence of open-source AI fashions which are aggressive with main choices by AI corporations within the West, like Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google.

Nonetheless, the Chinese language firm claims its AI fashions have been educated for only a fraction of the value as those from the likes of OpenAI and Meta, and utilizing considerably worse AI chips.

DeepSeek’s app is basically a ChatGPT various that’s powered by the Chinese language lab’s V3 mannequin. You should use the bot to investigate recordsdata, reply questions, and get data from the net. The app is free and allows you to add recordsdata and sync your chat historical past throughout gadgets

Whereas DeepSeek is ruling the charts for now, it must get to 300 million weekly customers to overhaul OpenAI’s ChatGPT for a long-term lead in chatbots.

Each DeepSeek and its household of fashions have acquired lots of consideration from the business up to now few days. Startups like Perplexity and Gloo — former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s new enterprise — are already integrating DeepSeek for his or her utilization.