
The internet seemingly has a new favorite AI, and it's not the latest ChatGPT model from industry untouchables OpenAI.
Soaring to the top of Apple's App Store, Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot DeepSeek has now become the top-rated free app for productivity after a groundswell in popularity following the release of the DeepSeek-R1 "reasoning" model on January 20, overtaking OpenAI's ChatGPT in the process.