Chinese startup DeepSeek said on Monday it will temporarily restrict registration due to cyber attacks due to the company’s AI assistants suddenly gained popularity.
Earlier in the day, the company also took a hit by downtime on its website after its AI assistant became the highest free application on the US Apple App Store.
The company addressed issues that the programming interface with its application and that users could not log in based on its status page. Monday’s interruption was the company’s longest time in 90 days, which coincided with its high-altitude popularity.
DeepSeek launched a free assistant last week, which said using data in a small portion of the cost of using existing player models could mark a turning point in the level of investment required by AI.
Powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, its creator said: “Of the most advanced closed source models worldwide, the most advanced closed source models rank first in the rankings”, and since its release in January, AI applications The popularity of programs among American users is growing rapidly. 10. Research company sensor tower according to applied data.
This milestone highlights DeepSeek’s deep impression of Silicon Valley, a widely held view of the primacy of US artificial intelligence and the effectiveness of Washington export controls targeting China’s advanced chips and AI capabilities.
Technology stocks were hammered on Monday, bringing NVIDIA and Oracle stocks down.
AI models from Chatgpt to DeepSeek require advanced chips to power their training. Since 2021, the Biden Administration has expanded the scope of the ban to prevent the export of these chips to China and used to train Chinese companies’ AI models.
However, DeepSeek-V3 used NVIDIA’s H800 chip for training, which cost less than $6 million, DeepSeek researchers wrote in a paper last month.
Although this detail has been controversial, the claim that the chips used are not as powerful as the most advanced NVIDIA products that Washington has tried to stay away from China, and the relatively cheap training costs have prompted U.S. tech executives to question the effectiveness of technology export controls.
Very little is known about the companies behind DeepSeek, a small-scale startup based in Hangzhou, founded in 2023 when search engine giant Baidu released the first large-scale Chinese AI language model.
Since then, dozens of major tech companies have released their own AI models, but DeepSeek is the first to be praised by the U.S. technology industry because it matches and outperforms the performance of state-of-the-art American models.
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