China's Deepseek surpasses 100 million cumulative downloads in one month since release - Korean report

"Deepseek," a "low-cost, high-efficiency" generative AI model developed in China, has exceeded 100 million cumulative downloads in about one month since its release, according to a report by China's
The economic newspaper "Mainichi Keizai Shimbun" reported on the 21st. According to the data analysis platform "Quest Mobile" cited by the newspaper, on the 11th of last month, Apple's App Store
Deepseek's app, released on the App Store and Android app market, has had a total of 110 million downloads as of the 9th of this month.
The number of weekly active users after the release temporarily reached a peak of 97 million. The number of weekly downloads of Deepseek's app was 100 million on January 13, early in the release period.
Between January 20th and January 19th, the number was only 285,000. However, between January 20th and January 26th, when the inference model "R1" was released, the number jumped to 2.26 million, and the following week (January 27th to February 29th)
On January 2nd, the number of hits rose sharply to 63 million. In particular, on January 27th, it was evaluated that the AI was comparable to the strongest inference model "o1" of the US OpenAI, despite being developed at low cost.
was released and became the number one free app download in the App Store, overtaking OpenAI's ChatGPT.
At the time, the “DeepSeek Shock” caused the New York stock market to plummet, raising the possibility that cutting-edge AI chips may no longer be necessary to develop AI models.
NVIDIA's market capitalization has disappeared by about 880 trillion won (about 95 trillion yen). Deepseek has achieved a historic record of 100 million cumulative downloads without investing a single yen in marketing.
The newspaper reports that the achievements are also noteworthy. Meanwhile, Kimi, which released a new model at almost the same time after investing about 900 million yen (about 178 billion yen) since March last year, has been a big hit.
Despite its large-scale marketing, it is said to be losing ground to Deepseek.