SHANGHAI/PALO ALTO, California -- The generative artificial intelligence model developed by China's DeepSeek has received a warm welcome at home while provoking a backlash elsewhere, underscoring a sharp divide between Chinese and U.S. tech development.
DeepSeek's user interfaces, including its app, topped 100 million cumulative users seven days after the Jan. 20 announcement of its R1 model, according to Chinese site Aicpb.com. It reached this milestone slower than Meta's Threads app, which did so in five days, but much faster than ChatGPT, which took two months.
