The Chinese startup DeepSeek was hit by outages on its website after its AI assistant became the top-rated free application available on Apple's App Store in the United States. DeepSeek said on Monday it will temporarily limit registrations due to a cyberattack after the company's AI assistant amassed sudden popularity. The outages on Monday were the company's longest in around 90 days and coincided with their sky-rocketing popularity, especially in Silicon Valley.

The artificial intelligence application DeepSeek-V3 model, which their company claims tops the leaderboard among open-source models and rivals the most advanced closed-source models globally, has surged in popularity among U.S. users since it was released on January 10, 2025. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page