DeepSeek has become the second most popular chatbot in the world, but it will not be easy for it to achieve leadership

Chinese company DeepSeek is rapidly gaining popularity in the artificial intelligence market. In a week, the platform's traffic grew by 614%, surpassing Gemini and Character AI, and the number of visits reached 49 million per day.

A month ago, the DeepSeek website had only 300,000 visits per day, but by the end of January this figure had grown to 33.4 million users, reports 24 Channel with reference to PCMag. Such a jump not only changed the balance of power in the technology sector, but also caused panic among investors.

This even led to a drop in quotes of American technology stocks – In particular, Nvidia shares fell by 17.8%, despite impressive growth, DeepSeek is still behind market leader ChatGPT, which attracts over 130 million visits daily. 60~/p> 60~h2 class=”news-subtitle cke-markup” Why DeepSeek became popular? Experts believe that the main factor in DeepSeek's success was the release of the open V3 model, which attracted the interest of developers and companies. worldwide. The company claims that its training cost $5.5 million, which is significantly less than similar American solutions.

Important! There are doubts about this and many experts note that the company is hiding the real numbers, which are far from being so impressively low

At the same time, the capabilities of V3 are comparable to ChatGPT, but with one important difference: the model can be downloaded and run on local servers. This makes it attractive to organizations looking to implement AI without using cloud services.

DeepSeek's problems

Although DeepSeek has yet to surpass even the Bing search engine, which uses OpenAI's Copilot AI assistant, the platform has already established itself in the US market.

According to Similarweb, DeepSeek peaked at 4.9 million daily visits in the US on January 28, and then stabilized at 2.4 million – This is an increase of 813.3% in a week.

However, analysts warn that the future of DeepSeek may be less optimistic due to increasing competition.

• For example, OpenAI recently introduced Deep Research – a feature that allows you to create detailed analytical reports based on data from hundreds of sources.
• In addition, DeepSeek faces criticism over its privacy and censorship policies, which could affect user loyalty.

Despite this, DeepSeek remains one of the most promising players in the rapidly developing artificial intelligence market.