Just two months after its successful debut, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has skyrocketed to become the world’s second most popular AI chatbot. According to website tracking firm SimilarWeb, DeepSeek.com now sees more daily visits than Google’s Gemini and Character.AI. This comes just over a week after DeepSeek overtook ChatGPT to become the top-rated free app on Apple’s U.S. App Store. The buzz around DeepSeek skyrocketed after reports showed its V3 model outperforming Meta’s Llama 3.1, OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 in third-party benchmarks—all while being significantly cheaper. Deepseek Overtakes Google Gemini Google Responds to the Competition But Google isn’t…