DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has gained significant attention recently, prompting the company to limit new registrations due to waves of malicious attacks on its services. In a statement shared via its incident report page, DeepSeek announced, "Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek’s services, we are temporarily limiting registrations to ensure continued service." Current users can still access their accounts, while new users are met with messages indicating that registration is currently unavailable.

Eric Kron, a security awareness advocate with KnowBe4, noted the popularity of DeepSeek has made it a target for harmful web traffic. Such attacks may aim to extort the company by threatening to disrupt its services or could stem from rival businesses trying to undermine competition or protect their investments.

Founded in 2023, DeepSeek is focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) and has recently launched an iOS chatbot app that quickly rose to the top of Apple’s free app charts, surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The startup claims its models are advanced yet cost-efficient, a notable achievement considering ongoing U.S. sanctions that restrict the sale of high-end AI chips to Chinese companies.

DeepSeek’s training process is impressive: it can train its models in under two months using minimal computing resources. Their pre-training of the DeepSeek-V3 model, for instance, takes less than two months and costs approximately $5.576 million in GPU hours.

However, the platform has come under scrutiny for censoring discussions on sensitive topics, such as Tiananmen Square and Uyghurs in China. Furthermore, its privacy policy raises concerns regarding the security of user data, detailing that personal information is stored on servers within China.

The emergence of DeepSeek has revitalized the AI landscape, with OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman even remarking on the impressiveness of DeepSeek’s new reasoning model, highlighting the positive impact of competition in the field.

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