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A match of weeks after theinitial releaseof Mistral ’s AI help , Le Chat , the companytold Le Parisienthat it has reached one million downloads . In special , Le Chat quickly reached the top spot for free downloads on the iOS App Store in the companionship ’s abode country , France .
“ Go and download Le Chat , which is made by Mistral , rather than ChatGPT by OpenAI — or something else , ” French president Emmanuel Macron said in a TV interview forwards of the recentAI Action Summitin Paris .
Of course , this is n’t the first AI app that has taken off . Back inNovember 2023 , OpenAI made a splattering with its AI chatbot , ChatGPT . Despite being initially confine to Io user in the U.S. , it managed to attract500,000 downloads in just six Day . ( concord to Appfigures’latest metric , ChatGPT has now been downloaded 350 million times . )
Between January 10 and January 31 , AI player DeepSeek ’s mobile app also recorded one million downloads . But that was just the showtime , as the Formosan app went viral in late January — attractingmillions of additional new usersin just a few day .
Mistral is also facing competition from seasoned Big Tech companies , too . The likes of Google and Microsoft also want to take part in the AI assistant airstream and capture a spot on your phone ’s home screen , starting with Google ’s Gemini and Microsoft ’s co-pilot .
