According to Daily Economic News, the DeepSeek App achieved remarkable results within a month of its launch, with total downloads exceeding 100 million.
It is reported that this app was officially released on January 11, 2025. According to data from QuestMobile, from its launch until February 9, the total downloads of the DeepSeek App surpassed 110 million, with peak weekly active users nearing 97 million.
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Furthermore, its weekly downloads experienced rapid growth, rising from 285,000 times between January 20 and January 26 to 63 million the following week, an increase of over 2700%.
The rise of DeepSeek is closely linked to its technological capabilities. The application open-sourced its inference model, DeepSeek-R1, on January 20, which performs on par with OpenAI's latest models. In the following days, DeepSeek's downloads continued to climb, reaching nearly 64 million between January 27 and February 2, making it the highest downloaded AI application in the country.
