DeepSeek chatbot (app & web)
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DeepSeek
Overview
Free consumer assistant across iOS, Android and web, running the V4 family with Expert and Instant modes. Briefly the #1 free app on the US iOS App Store after R1's January 2025 launch and still one of the world's top AI chat platforms.
~130M monthly active users in China and ~173M cumulative downloads (estimates); third-largest domestic AI-native app by MAU per QuestMobile (May 2026), behind ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen.