The meteoric rise of DeepSeek—the Chinese AI startup now challenging global giants—has stunned observers and put the ...

The app has been among the most downloaded chatbots in ... It invented a Character.ai-like companion chatbot called Talkie, which has become popular in the U.S. This month, it published two ...

In the U.S., MiniMax operates Talkie, an AI conversation app that has gained some ... as well as HongShan, operates a popular AI chatbot app called Kimi in China. But brutal competition from ByteDance ...

A wave of global internet traffic has made China’s DeepSeek the second most popular AI chatbot on the internet, surpassing Google’s Gemini. Web-based traffic to DeepSeek.com reached a record ...

AI companions like Grok are becoming more lifelike and ever-present, offering constant validation and companionship.

Baidu has announced that ERNIE Bot will be free for all users starting April 1, 2025. The chatbot will be available on both desktop and mobile app versions. Users will have full access to the ...

Grok 3 is Musk's latest AI powerhouse, but despite its rapid progress, experts say it's still not enough to dethrone ChatGPT ...

China’s ability to launch DeepSeek’s popular chatbot came under scrutiny before ... said China’s “most advanced [AI] models, including DeepSeek R1, are largely relying on US-made ...