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- China’s DeepSeek AI Assistant app has become the top free app on the Apple App Store in the US.
- The new chatbot beat ChatGPT to become the number one free app in the market.
- The underlying AI model can reportedly compete with OpenAI’s models while requiring a fraction of the training budget.
Chinese AI platform DeepSeek has made waves in recent weeks thanks to the accompanying DeepSeek R1 AI model. Now, it turns out that DeepSeek’s AI Assistant app has become the top free app on the Apple App Store.
The DeepSeek AI Assistant has passed OpenAI’s ChatGPT to become the top free app on the Apple App Store in the US. Check out a screenshot of the chart below. The app is currently listed in 10th place on the Play Store’s free apps chart, but seems to be rising quickly.