Similiarweb data claims DeepSeek’s usage doubled to 12 million people worldwide in the space of two days Release of DeepSeek’s R1 model has prompted panic in Western AI leaders worried about their bottom line ChatGPT continues to outperform DeepSeek in sheer page hits, but not in growth In the space of two weeks, open source and MIT-licenced Chinese large language model (LLM) DeepSeek has taken the AI tool world by storm, sending Western AI-leader Nvidia stock plummeting and prompting OpenAI’s Sam Altman to accuse DeepSeek’s developers of using its models to train theirs. Western AI figureheads are right to be…