PANews reported on January 27 that according to Cailianshe, the Deepseek application developed by the domestic large-scale model company Hangzhou Deepseek topped the free APP download rankings of Apple's App Store in China and the United States on the 27th, surpassing ChatGPT on the US download list.

Deepseek comes from the domestic large-model company DeepSeek, which is a large-model company under the quantitative giant Huanfang Quantitative. On January 20, the company officially released the inference large model DeepSeek-R1. Once launched, DeepSeek-R1 caused a sensation in the overseas developer community with its "good quality and low price" characteristics. As an open source model, R1's performance in tasks such as mathematics, code, and natural language reasoning is comparable to the official version of the OpenAI o1 model, and adopts the MIT license agreement, supporting free commercial use, arbitrary modification and derivative development, etc. At present, on the foreign large model ranking list Chatbot Arena, DeepSeek-R1's benchmark ranking has risen to third among all categories of large models, tied with the latest version of OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o, and tied with OpenAI's o1 model for first place in the style control model (StyleCtrl) classification.