A chatbot developed by Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has ascended to the top of Apple’s App Store charts in the US, dethroning OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This surge in popularity follows the release of DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model, which the company claims rivals OpenAI’s o1 in performance while requiring significantly fewer resources.
Read: Chinese AI startup DeepSeek disrupts the market, sending tech stocks plunging
In this week’s Tech Tuesday segment on Smile 90.4FM we discuss how DeepSeek has disrupted the AI market and why it is important for AI companies.
