Chinese AI application DeepSeek has become the most popular in the US – ChatGPT and others are swallowing dust

The AI ​​ASSISTANT application DeepSeek’s Chinese startup was first place in the ranking of the most popular free applications in the online store in the Apple App Store in the United States, ahead of the Chat Chatt-Bot of the American company Openai, reports Reuters.

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AI Assistant, an AI application using the DeepSeek-V3 model, has rapidly gained popularity among US users since its release on January 10, according to research firm Sensor Tower. According to the creators of DeepSeek-V3, the model “tops the ranking among open source models and competes with the leading closed source models in the world.”

Earlier it was reported that the DeepSeek company caused a real shock in Silicon Valley, ahead of American players in the AI ​​market and refuting the widely held opinion in the West about the unconditional primacy of the United States in the field of AI and the effectiveness of Washington’s export restrictions on the supply of advanced chips and AI technologies to China and other countries.

DeepSeek reported last month that DeepSeek-V3 used Nvidia H800 chips for training, the supply of which is currently blocked in China due to US sanctions, while spending only $5.5 million.

DeepSeek’s statement that the chips used were less powerful than modern NVIDIA products that are prohibited for deliveries to China, as well as relatively low costs of teaching II models forced the leaders of American technological companies to doubt Washington’s export control, writes Reuters, Reuters writes .

The small Hangzhou-based startup DeepSeek was founded by billionaire Liang Wenfeng in 2023, when search giant Baidu released China’s first large language model. Since then, dozens of large and small Chinese tech companies have released their own AI models, but DeepSeek managed to develop the first AI model that was recognized in the US as matching and even outperforming cutting-edge US AI models.