Coming seemingly out of nowhere, DeepSeek has already climbed to the top of the free apps list on the Apple App Store in the US. In a victory that could prove symbolic, it dethroned OpenAI’s ChatGPT app that previously held the top spot.
It’s not just the US either, DeepSeek is the #1 free app in 51 countries. Further, the app is in the Top 10 free apps lists in 111 countries on the App Store and in 18 countries on the Google Play Store.
DeepSeek is quite new, only founded in 2023, and it released several AI models. However, it is the latest model, DeepSeek R1, which caused the storm –…