The number of weekly users of a new AI chatbot from the Chinese startup DeepSeek has surpassed one-point-two million in South Korea.

According to data from market tracker Wiseapp Retail Goods on Tuesday, DeepSeek, released late last month, became the second-most-popular generative AI application in the country in the fourth week of January with one-point-21 million users.

ChatGPT took the top spot with four-point-93 million users. 

Wrtn came in third with one-point-07 million users, followed by Adot, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot.