DeepSeek's Viral AI App Success

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Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts.

The company is backed by High-Flyer Capital Management , a Chinese quantitative hedge fund that uses AI to inform its trading decisions.

It reportedly recruits doctorate AI researchers from top Chinese universities.

DeepSeek’s success against larger and more established rivals has been described as “upending AI ” and “over-hyped” The company's success was at least in part responsible for causing Nvidia 's stock price to drop by 18% in January .

Developers have created over 500 “derivative” models of R1 that have racked up 2.5 million downloads combined.

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