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China's DeepSeek surpasses ChatGPT in US app downloads
China's homegrown AI model, DeepSeek, has surged to the top of the free app download charts in the United States regions of the Apple App Store, surpassing the once-dominant ChatGPT. It also secured the number one spot on the free app rankings in China.
In benchmark tests on Friday, DeepSeek-R1 ranked third across all categories on the international large model leaderboard, Arena. In addition to matching o1 in performance, the release of DeepSeek-R1 sent shockwaves through the US tech industry because it is fully open-source and achieved this breakthrough at an exceptionally low cost. Meanwhile, shares of chipmaker Nvidia dropped by 3.12 percent last Friday, marking its biggest single-day decline since the Consumer Technology Association exhibition, amid growing concerns over the overall risks of an AI bubble.
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