Wed Jan 29 04:49:32 UTC 2025: ## Chinese AI Chatbot DeepSeek Storms US App Store, Shakes Up Tech Market

**Hangzhou, China/New York, USA** – A new Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, DeepSeek, is making waves globally, outperforming established players like ChatGPT and causing ripples in the US stock market. The app has rapidly climbed to the top of the US Apple app store charts, surpassing ChatGPT in downloads. This success has been attributed to both the innovative technology and the team behind it, led by a young AI prodigy, Luo Fuli.

Luo, a 29-year-old researcher, played a crucial role in developing DeepSeek’s cutting-edge models. Her impressive background includes publications at the prestigious ACL conference and research positions at tech giants Alibaba and Xiaomi, where she contributed to significant AI projects. Her expertise in natural language processing (NLP) was instrumental in the creation of DeepSeek-V2 and subsequent iterations. Her talent has recently been recognized with a lucrative offer from Xiaomi founder Lei Jun, reportedly worth 10 million yuan annually.

DeepSeek, founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, is achieving these results despite utilizing significantly lower costs than its competitors. Independent analyses suggest that DeepSeek’s models, including the R1 model, outperform those created by Google, Meta, and Anthropic in several key benchmarks. Furthermore, DeepSeek-V3’s performance rivals leading models from other companies such as Llama 3.1 and Qwen 2.5, demonstrating comparable performance to GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

The app’s sudden surge in popularity has had a noticeable impact on the US tech sector. Shares in AI-related companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta, experienced declines following DeepSeek’s launch, highlighting the competitive pressure the Chinese chatbot is already exerting on the market. The rapid rise of DeepSeek underscores the increasing global competition in the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence.

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