DeepSeek’s AI app shot to No. 1 in the Apple App Store in January, pushing ChatGPT down to second place

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    19 hours ago

    I don’t get it. Why would DeepSeek supposedly get more downloads from the app store? It’s not like it’s any more interesting to consumers than other LLM apps. It was just notable for purportedly being cheaper to train. Something seems fishy.

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      15 hours ago

      Why would DeepSeek supposedly get more downloads from the app store?

      Just for starters, its been in the news non-stop for weeks.

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      18 hours ago

      Have you used it? It’s a vastly superior model for just about everything I’ve used it for…

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      18 hours ago

      It was a free o1/o3 equivalent at a time when there were only paid options. But in the short interim, Google’s made their r model free to use.

      *Plus, deepseek doesn’t hide its internal monologue the way o1/o3 do. It’s fun to watch it go back and forth with itself.

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        13 hours ago

        Lol have you not used o1/o3? They show the inner monologue too. Fun little pretend detail to keep you entertained while the model takes 30 seconds to respond.

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          7 hours ago

          o1/o3 use a smaller model to summarize the reasoning, but they don’t show the actual CoT generation the way deepseek does.