Deepseek has become more popular than chatgpt among Russians

The popularity of Deepseek in Russia was noticed in Yota. The Vdomosti operator press service said that the Chinese chatbot became the most used in Russia in January 2025, but did not reveal absolute values. Representatives of other operators left comments.

In T2, it was also reported that in December the chatgpt was temporarily lost in the first place at the monthly audience of the Sbering Gigacat Neuronal Network, which collected more than 430 thousand active users. In January, ChatGPT again overlooked Gigachat, occupying the second place after Deepseek.

Yandexgpt did not take into account the study, since it was integrated into several Yandex services, and it is impossible to determine the number of Chatbot users, the operator representative added.

At the end of January, Depseek overcame Openai’s Chatgpt application for the amount of downloads in the US Application Store, and then headed the top store and Google Play Tops in Russia. The increase in the popularity of the Chinese neuronal network led to the collapse of the US stock market as a result of which the richest people in the world lost $ 108 billion of total capital.

Telegram Creator Pavel Durov said Depseek’s success is associated with the superiority of the Chinese education system in the west. According to the entrepreneur, competition between students in China schools is encouraged, allowing him to create “outstanding specialists in the field of mathematics and natural sciences.”