Chinese AI App DeepSeek Soars in Popularity, Startling Rivals
An AI assistant created by Chinese startup DeepSeek became the number one most-downloaded app in Apple’s US App Store over the weekend, sending shock waves through Silicon Valley and causing the price of major tech stocks to plummet. On Monday, DeepSeek posted a message on its website saying it was temporarily limiting new registrations due to “large-scale malicious attacks” on the company’s services. DeepSeek’s R1 model “challenges the notion that Western AI companies hold a significant lead over Chinese ones,” Jack Clark, cofounder of the AI startup Anthropic, wrote in his newsletter. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen called it “AI's Sputnik moment.” Cheng Lu, a research scientist at OpenAI, said DeepSeek’s chatbot demonstrated impressive Chinese conversational skills. Let’s chat about math, coding, and logic problems instead!” A number of experts and early adopters have noted that DeepSeek, like other tech platforms that operate in China, appears to extensively censor topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese Communist Party But despite these limitations, DeepSeek’s free chatbot could pose a serious threat to competitors like OpenAI, which charges $20 per month to access its most powerful AI models.
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