Peek users is not the amount of users they had when Facebook started.
Facebook probably would've never became a thing if MySpace already had ~115M users when it started.
MySpace had ~1M.
That's why DeepSeek (or anyone else) is going to have an incredibly difficult time convincing ~1B to switch from ChatGPT to their tool instead.
Can it happen? For sure.
Will it happen? Less likely.
If anyone unseats ChatGPT - it's much more likely to be a usual suspect like Google, Apple, or Microsoft - then some obscure company no one has ever heard of.
Facebook probably would've never became a thing if MySpace already had ~115M users when it started.
MySpace had ~1M.
That's why DeepSeek (or anyone else) is going to have an incredibly difficult time convincing ~1B to switch from ChatGPT to their tool instead.
Can it happen? For sure.
Will it happen? Less likely.
If anyone unseats ChatGPT - it's much more likely to be a usual suspect like Google, Apple, or Microsoft - then some obscure company no one has ever heard of.
Of course, anything is possible.