BEIJING — Chinese startup DeepSeek's AI Assistant on Monday (Jan 27) overtook rival ChatGPT to become the top-rated free application available on Apple's App Store in the United States.
ChatGPT logo is seen in this illustration taken, Jan 22, 2025.BEIJING — 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.
The milestone highlights how DeepSeek has left a deep impression on Silicon Valley, upending widely held views about US primacy in AI and the effectiveness of Washington's export controls targeting China's advanced chip and AI capabilities. However, DeepSeek researchers wrote in a paper last month that the DeepSeek-V3 used Nvidia's H800 chips for training, spending less than US$6 million .
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