The mobile app for Deepseek, a Chinese AI lab, has risen to the top spot in app stores around the world this weekend, breaking through the United States -based AI chatbot, Chatgpt. In iOS, according to Appfigures, a Mobile App Analytics company, Deepseek is currently the first free app in the United States and 51 countries in iOS.
The rapid rise of DeepSeek on the App Stores top chart will continue to increase the popular meteor of the week, due to the release of a series of main products of Openai and Google and competitive open AI models. However, compared to other Frontier AI models, DeepSeek claims that the model has been trained at only a part of the price and the AI chips are worsening significantly. This indicates a new efficiency of AI model training, and NVIDIA's stock price has fallen by 17 % on Monday, highlighting the remaining high -tech industry.
On Friday, DeepSeek's mobile app downloaded 1 million on both App Store and Google Play. The number was doubled on Monday morning, downloading 2.6 million DeepSeek mobile apps on both platforms.
According to the app, the app is currently on the top 10 free apps of 111 App Store and 18 Google Play.
In addition, according to Analytics Firm Sensor Tower, more than 80 % of DeepSeek's total mobile app apps are downloaded in the past seven days. In that time, DeepSeek downloaded nearly 300 % apps than PRPLEXITY, another major consumer AI app.
DeepSeek rose to the first place in the US app store on Sunday, January 26, from 31st, a few days ago. On the other hand, DeepSeek is the 14th place free app of Google Play and has risen rapidly from No. 133 on January 24.
As a result, daily active users jumped over 110 % in both the world and the United States from January 24 to 25, compared to the same period before.
According to Sensor Tower, China is the largest mobile app market for Deepseek today, only 23 % of the downloads. The second and third markets of the app are the United States, which accounts for 15 % of the overall downloads, and Egypt accounts for 6 % of the total downloads.
The popularity of DeepSeek's mobile apps is questioning the popular consumer AI app, such as Chatgpt, Gemini, and PRPERXITY. Hundreds of millions of people use ChatGpt and Gemini each month, but DeepSeek still proves that consumer AI space is still unstable, and new competitors should not be counted.
However, it is worth noting that reaching the No. 1 position of the App Store is not only calculated only by downloading the app.
Apple's algorithm is a secret, but it is a combination of many factors, including the speed of installation. This quickly installs the installation and rises to the top of the chart, and can overtake other people with a large or installed user. It is more clear to see how much the top position is retained over time.
The high -tech industry still agrees about Deepseek's technology used for AI model training and what it means for a wider AI space. In light of the R1 model of Deepseek, the major AI model provider may feel that they are putting pressure on the release of excellent models to release excellent models. Meta is reportedly created some “war rooms” to analyze DeepSeek training methods.
DeepSeek's popularity may have been potentially suppressed by “large -scale malicious” attacks, and the company reports on Monday and restricts customers other than China. I was forced to do it.
An additional report by Salapelles.
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