Deepseek at the top of the most downloaded apps in 140 markets

Founder of the startup ia liang wenfeng celebrated hero in China

Deepseek is still at the top of the list of the most downloaded mobile apps in 140 markets, with India represents the highest percentage of new users. The artificial intelligence chatbot of the Chinese startup, which has turned upside down the way to think about the development of the low cost AI, has risen to the first place on the Apple App Store from January 26 and since then has maintained the position globally, According to Appfigures data, net of third -party apps in China. In this scenario, India has contributed to 15.6% of all downloads on the platforms since its launch, Bloomberg reported.

Meanwhile, the founder of Deepseek, Liang Wenfeng, is celebrated in China as a hero and has received a very high level welcome in the visit made for the lunar New Year to his hometown, in the province of Guangdong, who became a tourist attraction based right on its connection with Deepseek. According to local media and social posts, Liang returned to the village of Mililing to Zhanjiang on Tuesday, a port city, where a red banner was hoisted that greeted him as a “nafe pride” for honoring the local community, They reported some posts on Weibo (the x mandarin). The village also had a surge in “national visitors”, according to what the Yangcheng Evening News has published, a state newspaper based in Guangzhou, the capital of the Guangdong.

Deepseek, based in Hangzhou, caused hesitations to Wall Street and Silicon Valley for developing artificial intelligence models to a fraction of the cost and calculation power that American technological companies such as Openii, Google and Meta Platforms usually invest in such such projects.