Deepseek, a Chinese AI startup that caused the open source R1 model in the AI world last week, has paused to sign up a new user.
According to CNBC reports, the company temporarily suspended new user registration for cyber attacks this morning. Existing users can access the account without any problems.
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This is a few days after DeepSeek became a topic of the AI world promoted by the excitement of the industry for the R1 model. DeepSeek claims that the inference model has broken O1 of Openai on multiple benchmarks. Today, the company has released a new Image Model family.
According to AppFigures data, DeepSeek apps hit 2.6 million downloads on Sunday. There are 1 million downloads from last Friday.