Chinese AI app DeepSeek limited the registration of new users due to large-scale cyberattacks on its services.
The company, whose chatbot took over OpenAI's ChatGPT as Apple's top downloaded app on Monday, cited "large-scale malicious attacks" for outages and its inability to take on new users, reported news agency AFP.
DeepSeek, the latest entrant in the artificial intelligence (AI) space, become the most downloaded app on Apple's App Store in the US, sparking anxiety across Silicon Valley with its meteoric rise.
The app is already being compared to those of industry giants like OpenAI, Google and Microsoft. Hours after the app topped the App Store listing, beating OpenAI’s ChatGPT Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas congratulated.
What is DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 is a cutting-edge large language model designed to elevate reasoning and analytical capabilities. It has been developed by Hangzhou-based startup DeepSeek and features a hybrid architecture combining reinforcement learning with chain-of-thought reasoning for advanced performance. The model comes in two versions: DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-R1-Zero. The latter offers unsupervised fine-tuning, enabling even more refined reasoning abilities.
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