DeepSeek AI is now on top of Apple's App Store.
DeepSeek AI is now on top of Apple's App Store
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| Hey DeepSeek, how long until you're also first on Google Play? Credit: Greg Baker / Getty Images |
Well, that was fast.
Just a few days after China's AI startup DeepSeek launched its latest reasoning model, DeepSeek R1, the company's iOS app surged to the top of Apple's App Store, leaving OpenAI's ChatGPT in second place.
DeepSeek claims that it DeepSeek R1 beats competing AI models in several key benchmarks. In my testing, it definitely held its own, helping me design a web project in minutes and helping me improve my chess skills.
But what truly propelled DeepSeek's popularity is the fact that it's open source, as well as its pricing. DeepSeek is free to use on the web and as a smartphone app, and the company charges a lot less for API access than OpenAI does for its most advanced reasoning AI model. Numerous threads on social networks popped up over the weekend with examples of people running DeepSeek on fairly modest hardware or using it to perform complex tasks.
The result? DeepSeek is now the top app on Apple's App Store, and the 20th most popular app on Google Play.
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The launch and sudden popularity of DeepSeek could also impact the U.S. stock market, where Nvidia currently reigns supreme as the largest company by market cap. There are indications that DeepSeek has been built and trained for far less than competing U.S.-based models such as Meta's Llama and OpenAI's ChatGPT models. This, in turn, could mean a weaker demand for Nvidia hardware, which is commonly used for high-end AI applications. Currently, tech stock index NASDAQ's futures are down 3.2 percent ahead of market open on Monday.
Chinese AI? Hard pass. I don't want to aid in the development of AI by a country that could potentially be an enemy in the future. Nor do I want any of my data going into their information troves. I have just begun to use some AI and I will stick to the options here at home.
ReplyDeleteOk, Boomer.
DeleteDeepSeek trade secret REVEALED: All queries are actually referred directly to classrooms of Chinese 4th graders who provide the needed info in real time. This technology is so vastly superior that all other AI attempts are doomed from the start.
ReplyDeleteChina's rise is unstopable 👍
ReplyDeleteThe media needs to really calm down about over blowing non stories. No one knows anything about this thing. Companies have already lost billions in valuation over nonsense.
ReplyDeleteHey I’m Mr DeepSeek, look at me!
ReplyDelete😂😂😂😂
ReplyDeleteThe way it learns things is on the next level.
ReplyDeleteGreat, it's time to Nvidia show why they worth 3 Trillions of dollar's... China is doing what's called optimization while Nvidia and OpenAI still claiming for more charges and profits
ReplyDeletelol when they find out it’s just gpt with a diffrent badge 😂
ReplyDeleteAnd OpenAI, Meta, Google are better? They also in some way control what information we get. Only difference is that they are good guys (they are on “our side”) and DeepSeek is that bad one. But really, they all work the same way
ReplyDeleteDeepseek is just excellent ❤️
ReplyDeleteThe irony
ReplyDeleteExactly share even more of your data with China.
ReplyDeleteIt's yet another hype like Huawei when they launched the Mate 60 with so called 4nm processor with much fanfare by the nationalistic chinamen. A guess what happen later? 🤣🤣🤣
ReplyDeleteChina just showed the world that what American AI tech bro billionaires did was just build monopolies to keep out competition & enrich themselves further rather than innovate.
ReplyDeleteBasically what Americans did great is Greed
DeleteIt's what they've been doing ever since.
DeleteYou’ve only got 334 reviews… Far from the top app in the App Store
ReplyDeletethere's birth to everyone and so this app.
DeleteRome wasn't built in a day
I don’t care if it only has one review. But saying that it’s at the top of the App Store is a lie.
DeleteExcept you’re lying cause I just checked
DeleteIt’s
#1
Don’t worry Trump will ban the spy app but once again, a 👩🏼 is wrong
so Apple is lying that it's number one?
DeleteSo, what's up with being on top of 🍏's App store!!!!!!!!!🤓
ReplyDeleteask it who the guy is carrying 2 shopping bags in front of the tanks 🤗
ReplyDeleteIt’s just going to cause more efficiency with in turn will make people use more ai
ReplyDeleteMight as well download it. Most of our electronics are made in China anyway, so China can't really be the enemy.
ReplyDeletelet’s go Deepseek 😄👏🏻
ReplyDeleteSTAY AWAY FROM IT!!!!
ReplyDeletethat's the only way America company can earn money.. right?
DeleteTell me you’re not American without saying you’re American.
Delete...???
DeleteIn short - Deep Seek is developed in China, as is Tik-tok. The uproar is not about Capability but alleged cost. Trump announced billions with respect to AI. China allegedly produced AI for fraction of the cost. I don’t mean to be so snarky as this isn’t X (Twitter), but Chat-GPT is miles better. But again, that isn’t the issue. China simply proved that, allegedly, the exponential rise in AI. Issue with Deep Seek, is the same issue regarding Tik-tok, I.e indirect surveillance.
Deleteand you’re not getting surveilled by ChatGPT or Google?
DeleteMy queries aren’t censored by Chat-GPT. I mean yes, everything in theory is subjected to surveillance but we still have the privilege to ask questions and command a response accordingly.
Deletehave more experience with Google and it doesn’t answer many things. I don’t know whether that is censoring, or it’s just not very good……
DeleteI can’t post photos apparently but I asked Deep Seek what happened in Tiananmen Square, the response? “ I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses.”
DeleteGPT on the other hand provided pretty comprehensive review, as for more historical cases I’ve dived into.
DeleteI will be sure to follow the advice of a laundromat.
DeleteSurely he is the most educated of the planet of the operations of advanced tech like AI.
😂😂
DeleteI'd rather stay away from US tech. Apparently everything is for sale there including people's private info
DeleteThat just made me to download it ASAP.
Deleteyet again American made products prove inferior. The free market has spoken.
DeleteIt’s really bad. It just gives bogus answers.
ReplyDeleteAnd you all thought TikTok was stealing your information. Don’t download this!
ReplyDelete"wow, great product, let's start a senate investigation"
ReplyDelete"Ah yes, banning TikTok to protect our privacy from the Chinese government, only to welcome DeepSeek AI into the app store. Because nothing says 'we value your data' like swapping one potential spy for another! Makes perfect sense!" 😂
ReplyDeletehttps://media1.tenor.co/m/NxekbdVFcoIAAAAd/spy-hamster.gif?
Warn people off China Software!
ReplyDeleteIf this is true, 600 Billion dollars for Stargate vs 6 million dollars for DeepSeek showcases why a lack of competition in a segment or market hurts consumers. This is a 100,000X differential.
ReplyDeleteI’ll never download it.
ReplyDeleteHow can they charge anything for API access if it's "open source?" Competitors can just grab the code and run it on their own servers for free. Or maybe it's not really open source after all? So maybe we don't really know if it's more efficient or cheaper or what chips it runs on after all? We just have their word?
ReplyDeleteso what!!! It’s not like all American made apps have integrity and security
ReplyDeleteNSA reads ur emails anyway
ReplyDeleteYou really just have to read their privacy policy 😅 to decide deleting it before you agree with their terms.
ReplyDeleteyet you didn’t bother to read FaceBooks privacy policy obviously, as here you are.
DeleteWe’ll be careful
ReplyDeleteGot a feeling a ban is coming… Tik tok, tik tok…
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
ReplyDeleteYup everyone just downloaded it and see what the hype is. Then deleted it after getting all the censored and biased response.
ReplyDeleteof it was uncensored it would’ve been king
Deleteif u re an extremist only wanting to get ur fantasised response, u can just open CNN, Fox, Bloomberg and etc to satisfy ur needs
DeleteI am dubious at how well it works
ReplyDeleteTech war between US and China is good for the world.
ReplyDeleteAnd fools will download the app that China made!!!
ReplyDeleteand writing this on a phone they made, living in a house which has a ton of products they made.
DeleteI worked in the electronics industry for 34 years. The only thing I have in my house is clothing. Nothing electronic in my house from China.
DeleteIs your phone or laptop manufactured in US ?
Deleteactually the company I taught at and worked for manufactured microchips made in the USA. You don't know the ends and outs of manufacturing computer chips, they are regulated. Oh and just so you know. I held a Security Clearance for 10 years.
Deleteokay Karen
Deletebut wait your on FaceBook who are notorious for selling your data…
Deleteokay karen
DeleteYou are the product...
ReplyDeleteAs predicted it refuses to answer anything which can embarrass the chinise. Like tiananmen square.
ReplyDeleteAI is not good if you want your Privacy!!!!!
ReplyDeleteneither is Google or Facebook, but here you are.
DeleteDeepSeek. So smarter than the paranoid DeepState freaks.
ReplyDeleteDeepSeek so smart that the ignoramus members of the MAGA Q Cult lost a lot of money today in the stock market, they bought Trump’s meme coin.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
DeleteGet the facts….
ReplyDeleteJust another way for China to gain access to Americans personal information like TikTok already does
ReplyDeleteit’s alright TicTok is safe now America will make money out of it in the future 😂
DeleteMore like dip shiit
ReplyDeleteChina, cyber invasion and people like it because it's cheap. China's smiling. Haysss. Schewpid people
ReplyDeleteFree to spy and plant malware. Is Mashable a Chinese company? Probably!
ReplyDeleteParanoid much?
Deletemore like you are uninformed. I live in China, no way in hell I'd download that app. It's bad enough having to censor myself on Wechat and Facebook. AI will give them access to everything you do, it can see your phone screen and use your microphone. You don't live in China, so you don't have to fear the repercussions of expressing your thoughts.
DeleteClearly not informed enough to have an intelligent opinion anyway.
us do the same they spy on us and sell our profile to any one to pay money and we are just a product of marketing and is the reality and not false .
DeleteI don’t trust anything that China puts out. A lot of is copied and pirated. Besides I am not giving away my info to China.
ReplyDeleteWe are in a Cold War with China, don’t be fooled by their propaganda.
ReplyDeleteThey copy our stuff, they don’t innovate.
Chinese companies have applied for more patents than the US for some years. The innovation flow is not the direction you think it is.
Deleteproof of a Cold War against China, we better step it up. I believe that’s what this president is aiming to do.
Deletewhy Cold War? Afraid of going up against the Chinese like normal trading nations?
DeleteAfraid yes.
DeleteSure, give all your info to China.
ReplyDeletethat’s almost as bad as being on Facebook and giving all your info to the USA.
Deletelol! Did you use your brain to come up with this comparison? China being communist will never be the same as the US. Yes! The US also collects your data, but will not invade your country like China does, putting spies everywhere.
Deleteseriously USA has invaded far more countries than China ever has.
DeleteUSA is also threatening to invade more countries than China at the moment too and there is plenty of evidence of USA spies operating in our country.
spot on
DeleteNo, it’s really not. Facebook is a US company.
Deleteif you have a credit card…ALL your information is already out on the market to be bought and sold. Don’t be naive this is only about money and who gets the most…nothing more or less!
DeleteYeah, yeah. Not trying to make it easy for them. They have to pay for it on the dark web. lol. Also, the kind of info people give to AI is quite different, just sayin’
DeleteDude, you are so ignorant.
DeleteNope. You’re looking in the mirror on that one.
DeleteYou already do.
DeleteSee above
Deleteit seems you have trouble understanding written word. The software is opensource and you can run it on your machine. Offline, that's without a network connection.
DeleteThe average user does this?
Deleteyeah, he can.
DeleteThat’s a super myopic reply. Does the average user run open source software? That’s a very niche subset.
DeleteI never trust China.
ReplyDeleteoh sorry you only trust American oligarchs 🙄
DeleteI’d choose those dipshits over the CCP any day.
DeleteThe game only works if you play it
ReplyDeleteTrump’s tariffs on DeepSeek should solve this, right?
ReplyDelete#askingforafanboy
#LetsGoBrandon
#teslafanboyscertified
#MAGA🇺🇸
Ask Deepseek if it can decode "LetsGoBrandon".
Delete低訓練成本才是真正的競爭力
ReplyDelete不然OpenAI也來低價拼殺
Și Trump este ocupat cu Tik Tok 😵💫💉😵💫💉😵💫💉
ReplyDeletehttps://media1.tenor.co/m/pHwrMdeNK5oAAAAC/laughing-clap.gif
And the great thing about it is that if you want to get a record of all the stuff you've looked at, it's all backed up on a server in Beijing for you, by the chinese secret police! you just have to contact them to get all your data back, easy!
ReplyDeleteAnd the US govt were complaining about the espionage possibilities of TikTok? Jesus.
Nope. China will not be infecting my phone
ReplyDeleteDeepSeek is helping to make the richest American poorer, that’s the same as making the rest of Americans happier. So don’t be upset just because is made in China 🇨🇳
ReplyDelete