Almost a third of Indians AI platforms users likely to switch to DeepSeek

Bengaluru: Many Indians, who have already gotten hooked to artificial intelligence (AI) platform ChatGPT, have been quick to shift their allegiance to the next big thing on the horizon - DeepSeek, says LocalCircles based on its survey, released on Tuesday, barely two weeks since the new chatbot was launched globally.

While reports suggest that DeepSeek has replaced ChatGPT as the top app on Apple’s app store in several countries, this survey claims that India is not far behind.

The survey, which managed to draw 92,000 respondents from 309 districts in India, shows that 31 per cent of chatbot users have either already or are most likely going to switch to DeepSeek soon.

The study attributed this to DeepSeek’s cost-effective AI models, particularly hardware, which is directly competing with those developed by established US companies. Its AI model reportedly costs a fraction of what existing platforms offer.

According to the survey at least 1 in 2 Indian internet users are already using AI platforms, largely (66 per cent) for information. Of them, 25 per cent also use it to summarise documents or other use cases.

This, despite the survey’s finding that 18 per cent of AI users even find information generated on AI platforms to be inaccurate.