Do you need to delete this app? . With DeepSeek ascending to top Google’s Play Store after doing the same on Apple’s App Store, there are millions of Americans now

For the second time in the last month, a Chinese app has skyrocketed to the top spot in Apple’s App Store. The first was Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, which saw a sudden surge in downloads by United States users seeking an alternative to TikTok in anticipation of the ban on that app,

DeepSeek, the popular AI startup, left one of its online databases exposed. If bad actors accessed this database, they had access to sensitive user information, such as chat history and secret keys.

A Chinese AI chatbot has made waves recently, and it's now passed ChatGPT to become the top free app on the US App Store.

Max's release points to the pressure DeepSeek's meteoric rise in the past three weeks has placed on overseas rivals and domestic competition.

Alibaba announced a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model on Wednesday, the first day of the Lunar Year in China. The Chinese tech company argued that Qwen 2.5 surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.

The sudden release of the Alibaba AI model is a sign of the pressure created in the industry after the meteoric rise of the Chinese AI newcomer DeepSeek