Recently, Chinese AI company DeepSeek surpassed ChatGPT on the Apple American free app download rankings with its application of the same name, attracting widespread attention from the industry. This incident not only highlights the rapid rise of DeepSeek in the field of AI applications, but also reflects the increasingly fierce competition in the global AI market. DeepSeek is known as the "big model version of Pinduoduo", and its low-cost and efficient model training method has also attracted much attention. Its pre-training cost is far lower than OpenAI's GPT-4o model. The ranking change has triggered an official response from ChatGPT and in-depth discussions from industry insiders.
The DeepSeek application surpassed ChatGPT and topped the Apple American free app download rankings, causing heated discussions in the market. This Chinese company, known as the "big model version of Pinduoduo", has attracted close attention from technology peers and investment institutions at home and abroad.
Regarding this ranking change, ChatGPT responded that DeepSeek may have unique advantages in some aspects or meet the specific needs of users, but such ranking changes may be temporary, and it also shows that the AI application market is fiercely competitive and has huge room for innovation.
On the foreign mockup ranking list Chatbot Arena, the benchmark ranking of DeepSeek-R1 has risen to third in all categories of mockups, tied with OpenAI's latest version of ChatGPT-4o.
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The DeepSeek application surpasses ChatGPT and tops the Apple American free app download rankings.
ChatGPT responded that the ranking changes may be temporary and the market competition is fierce.
The DeepSeek-R1 pre-training fee is only $5.576 million, which is far lower than the OpenAI GPT-4o model training cost.
The successful top-up of DeepSeek marks the emergence of Chinese AI companies on the international stage, and also indicates that the AI application market will show a more diversified and fierce competition in the future. Whether DeepSeek's low-cost strategy can continue to maintain its leading position will still be tested. But there is no doubt that this competition will promote technological innovation and development in the entire AI industry.