DeepSeek is the new AI chatbot on everybody’s lips and is currently sitting at the top of Apple ’s App Store in the US and the UK. A completely free AI model built by a Chinese start-up, DeepSeek wants to make AI even more accessible to the masses by offering a competitor to OpenAI ’s ChatGPT o1 reasoning model without a fee.

While the chatbots offer similar answers, the free version of China's ultra-efficient model has no messaging limits. But privacy concerns might have you sticking with ChatGPT.

DeepSeek’s AI assistant became the No. 1 downloaded free app on Apple’s iPhone store on Tuesday afternoon and its launch made Wall Street tech superstars' stocks tumble.

DeepSeek has become the most downloaded free app in the US just a week after it was launched. So how does it compare to its much more established and apparently much more expensive US rivals, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini?

DeepSeek AI is an advanced conversational AI platform. It excels at complex tasks like summarising lengthy documents, extracting key information, and answering questions precisely. It leverages a combination of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to understand and respond to user queries effectively.