DeepSeek-R1, the latest in a series of models developed with fewer chips and at low cost, is challenging the dominance of OpenAI, Google, and Meta. View on euronews

DeepSeek, a Chinese-made AI chatbot, soared to the top of the Apple Store's download charts, stunning analysts with its ability to match US competitors.

DeepSeek is the new AI chatbot on everybody’s lips and is currently sitting at the top of Apple ’s App Store in the US and the UK. A completely free AI model built by a Chinese start-up, DeepSeek wants to make AI even more accessible to the masses by offering a competitor to OpenAI ’s ChatGPT o1 reasoning model without a fee.