A Chinese AI chatbot has made waves recently, and it's now passed ChatGPT to become the top free app on the US App Store.

Following the release of R1, DeepSeek has achieved the number 1 position on the US App Store, overthrowing ChatGPT.

DeepSeek is a Chinese-owned AI startup and has developed its latest LLMs (called DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1) to be on a par with rivals ChatGPT-4o and ChatGPT -o1 while costing a fraction of the price for its API connections. And because of the way it works, DeepSeek uses far less computing power to process queries.

Chinese startup DeepSeek's AI Assistant on Monday overtook rival ChatGPT to become the top-rated free application available on Apple's App Store in the United States. Powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model,

DeepSeek has become the most downloaded free app in the US just a week after it was launched. So how does it compare to its much more established and apparently much more expensive US rivals, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini?

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has surpassed OpenAI’s ChatGPT in downloads on the Apple App Store in the U.S. just a week after its release. This marks a significant shift in the AI landscape and highlights the growing competition against established names like OpenAI,