Deepseek is hit by interruptions while users flock to AI Chinese Startup

Chinese Startup Deepseek said Monday is temporarily restricting registrations due to a wider -scale malicious attack on its services.

Deepseek was hit by interruptions on his website after his assistant I became the most valued free app at Apple App Store in the US.

The company resolved issues regarding its application programming interface and the inability of users to identify on the website, according to its status site. Monday’s interruptions were the longest of the company in about 90 days and coincides with its popularity in the sky.

Allowed by the Deepseek-V3 model, which its creators say that “the leader among the open-sourced models and rivals the most advanced globally closed models”, the artificial intelligence app has increased in popularity among US users Since it was published in January. 10, according to the Data Research Firm Sensor Tower.

The main point points out how Deepseek has left a deep impression on Silicon Valley, reversing widespread views on US advantage in it and the effectiveness of Washington’s export controls aiming at China’s advanced chip and his abilities .

The models of he from Chatgpt to Deepseek require advanced chips to strengthen their training. The Biden administration has expanded the area of ​​prohibitions created since 2021 to stop the export of these chips to China and the use to train the models of Chinese firms.

However, Deepseek researchers wrote in a newspaper last month that the Deepseek-V3 used the Nvidia H800 chips for training, spending less than $ 6 million.

Although this detail has been discussed since then, the claim that the chips used were less powerful than the most advanced Nvidia products that Washington has sought to keep out of China, as well as relatively cheap training costs, have delayed American technology leaders to question effectiveness. of technology export controls.

It is a little known for the company behind Deepseek, a small Hangzhou -based startup, founded in 2023, when Baidu’s search engine giant released the first Chinese model of it in large language.

Since then, dozens of Chinese large and small technology companies have released their artificial intelligence models, but Deepseek is the first to be assessed by the American technology industry as compliance or overcoming the performance of the latest US models.