The mobile app for Deepseek, a Chinese artificial intelligence laboratory, has risen to the stars in the first place in the App Store all over the world this weekend, at the top of the chatbot based in the United States, chatgpt. On iOS, Deepseek is currently app n. 1 free in the United States App Store and 51 other countries, according to the analysis company of the Appfigures mobile app.
Deepseek’s rapid rise in the best graphics of the App Stores follows its meteoric increase in popularity of this week resulting from the release of a series of open models that are competitive with the main offers of Openai and Google. However, compared to other models of border Ai, Deepseek states that its models have been trained only for a fraction of the price with significantly worse artificial intelligence chips. This represents new earnings of efficiency for the formation of the artificial intelligence model, which sent the price of the Nvidia shares that collapsed up to 17% on Monday and put the rest of the technological sector as alert.
On Friday, the Deepseek mobile app had only one million downloads both in the App Store and on Google Play. Since then that number has doubled starting from Monday morning, to 2.6 million downloads of the Deepseek mobile app on both platforms.
The app is currently in the top 10 for free apps in 111 countries on the App Store and in 18 countries on Google Play, according to Appfigures.
In addition, over 80% of the downloads of total mobile apps of Deepseek has arrived in the last seven days, according to the Sensor Tower analysis company. In that period of time, Deepseek saw almost 300% more apps of app compared to perplexity, another leading consumption app.
Deepseek moved to his place n. 1 on the United States App Store on Sunday 26 January, compared to n. 31 just a couple of days before. Meanwhile, Deepseek is the overall free app n. 14 on Google Play, which quickly climbs from n. 133 of January 24.
Consequently, the daily active users jumped both global and in the United States of over 110% from 24 to 25 January compared to the same period last week.
While China is the largest market of the mobile app for Deepseek today, it represents only 23% of its total downloads, according to Sensor Tower. The second and third largest markets of the app are the United States, which make up 15% of its total downloads, and Egypt, which constitutes 6% of its total downloads.
The popularity of the Deepseek mobile app raises questions about the moat of the famous AI consumer apps, such as chatgpt, twins and perplexities. While hundreds of millions of people use chatgpts and twins every month, Deepseek shows that the consumer space is still volatile and that the new competitors should not be accounts.
However, it is worth noting that reaching position no. 1 on the App Store is not only calculated by the downloads of apps alone.
Apple’s algorithm, although secret, is a combination of numerous factors, including the speed of installations and more. This allows apps that get installations quickly to go up to the stars in the upper part of the graphs, overcoming others that can have a higher total number of users or installations. It will be more significant to see how much time Deepseek maintains its highest position over time.
The technological industry is still coming to terms with the deepseek techniques used to train its models AI and what it means for the space to the largest. In light of the R1 model of Deepseek, the main suppliers of artificial intelligence models could feel under pressure to release better models to demonstrate their domain or justify the heavy price they are paying for the calculation. According to reports, Meta has created several “war rooms” to analyze the deepseek training methods.
Deepsek’s rise in popularity was potentially suffocated by wicked attacks on large scale “, reported the company on Monday, who forced him to limit customers outside China from registration for the app.
Further reports by Sarah Perez.
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