A few weeks after the preliminary launch of Mistral’s AI assistant, Le Chat, the corporate told Le Parisien that it has reached a million downloads. Specifically, Le Chat rapidly reached the highest spot totally free downloads on the iOS App Retailer within the firm’s residence nation, France.
“Go and obtain Le Chat, which is made by Mistral, moderately than ChatGPT by OpenAI — or one thing else,” French president Emmanuel Macron mentioned in a TV interview forward of the latest AI Motion Summit in Paris.
After all, this isn’t the primary AI app that has taken off. Again in November 2023, OpenAI made a splash with its AI chatbot, ChatGPT. Regardless of being initially restricted to iOS customers within the U.S., it managed to draw 500,000 downloads in simply six days. (In line with Appfigures’ newest metrics, ChatGPT has now been downloaded 350 million occasions.)
Between January 10 and January 31, AI participant DeepSeek’s cell app additionally recorded a million downloads. However that was just the start, because the Chinese language app went viral in late January — attracting thousands and thousands of further new customers in just some days.
Mistral can also be going through competitors from veteran Huge Tech firms, too. The likes of Google and Microsoft additionally need to participate within the AI assistant race and seize a spot in your cellphone’s residence display, beginning with Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot.