DeepSeek's AI Assistant takes the lead on Apple's App Store, challenging US dominance in AI and raising questions about the effectiveness of export controls targeting China.
A Chinese startup, DeepSeek, has made waves in the tech world by surpassing its US rival, ChatGPT, to become the top-rated free application on Apple's App Store in the United States. Powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, which its creators claim outperforms other open-source models and rivals the most advanced closed-source models globally, the AI application has rapidly gained popularity among US users since its launch on January 10th.
According to app data research firm Sensor Tower, DeepSeek's success highlights a significant shift in the AI landscape, challenging long-held assumptions about US dominance in the field and questioning the effectiveness of Washington's export controls aimed at limiting China's access to advanced chips and AI capabilities. While AI models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek require powerful chips for training, DeepSeek researchers claimed in a paper last month that their DeepSeek-V3 model was trained using Nvidia's H800 chips, costing less than US$6 million. Although this claim has been disputed, the suggestion that the chips used were less sophisticated than the most advanced Nvidia products targeted by US export controls, coupled with the relatively low training costs, has sparked debate among US tech executives regarding the effectiveness of these export restrictions. DeepSeek, a relatively unknown Hangzhou-based startup founded in 2023, has emerged as a major player in the AI arena. Since Baidu, a Chinese search engine giant, released the first Chinese AI large-language model in 2023, dozens of Chinese tech companies have followed suit, but DeepSeek is the first to garner praise from the US tech industry for matching or even exceeding the performance of cutting-edge US models.
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