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Amanda Caswell

DeepSeek experiences outages and 'large-scale malicious attacks' amid overwhelming popularity

DeepSeek R1 illustrations.

Currently ranking as the top free app on Apple's App Store, DeepSeek experienced widespread outages this morning, affecting its API and web chat services. According to the company's status page, the API was operating with "degraded performance," while the web chat service faced a "partial outage."

DeepSeek, a Chinese startup and major AI competitor to ChatGPT, has rapidly emerged as a formidable player in the AI landscape. Founded in 2023, DeepSeek, backed by the hedge fund High-Flyer, focuses on developing open-source large language models (LLMs) that rival or surpass existing industry leaders in performance and cost efficiency.

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