The China Depseek startup announced that it will temporarily limit its records due to a cyber attack, after its artificial intelligence assistant won a sudden popularity.
Earlier, the startup also suffered interruptions on its website, after its artificial intelligence assistant became the best -qualified free application in Apple’s App Store in the United States.
Deepseek solved the problems related to its application programming interface (API) and the inability of users to log in to their website, according to their state page. The interruptions on Monday were the longest in approximately 90 days and coincided with their meteoric popularity.
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Last week, Depseek launched a free assistant that, he says, uses less data and has a much lower cost than the models of its competitors, which could mark a turning point at the investment level necessary for artificial intelligence.
Promoted by the Deepseek-V3 model, which its creators say “leads among open source models and rivals the most advanced closed code models worldwide”, the application of artificial intelligence has gained popularity among US users since its launch On January 10, according to the Data Research Firm of Applications Tower.
This milestone highlights how Deepseek has left a strong impression on Silicon Valley, challenging generalized beliefs about the primacy of the United States in artificial intelligence and the effectiveness of controls in technology exports by Washington aimed at advanced chip and China’s artificial intelligence.
This Monday, the actions of technological companies were affected, which caused the values of Nvidia and Oracle to fall dramatically.
Artificial intelligence models, from Chatgpt to Deepseek, require advanced chips to boost their training. Since 2021, the Biden administration has expanded the scope of the prohibitions designed to prevent these chips from being exported to China and used to train artificial intelligence models of Chinese companies.
However, Deepseek researchers wrote in a document last month that the Deepseek-V3 model used NVIDIA H800 chips for training, spending less than 6 million dollars.
Although this detail has been questioned, the claim that the chips used were less powerful than the most advanced NVIDIA products than Washington tries to keep out of China, as well as the relatively low training costs, it has led to the United States technological executives question the effectiveness of technological export controls.
Little is known about the company behind Depseek, a small head -based startup founded in 2023, when the Baidu search engines giant launched the first Chinese model of wide artificial intelligence language.
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Since then, dozens of Chinese, large and small technology companies have launched their own artificial intelligence models, but Deepseek is the first to be praised by the US technology industry as equal or even superior in performance to the advanced models of the United States.
With Reuters information
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