DeepSeek Restricts Registrations Amid Malicious Attacks
By Ravie Lakshmanan, January 28, 2025
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that has garnered significant attention in recent days, has announced that it is restricting registrations on its service due to malicious attacks.
"Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek’s services, we are temporarily limiting registrations to ensure the security of our users," a statement from the company reads. "We are taking measures to protect our users’ device and network connection information, usage patterns, and payment details โ are hosted in "secure servers located in the People’s Republic of China," a move that is likely to raise fresh concerns for Washington amid the ongoing TikTok ban.
"We are living in a timeline where a non-U.S. company is keeping the original mission of OpenAI alive โ truly open, frontier research that empowers all," said Jim Fan, senior research manager and lead of Embodied AI (GEAR Lab) at NVIDIA.
OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman called DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model "impressive" and that it’s "legit invigorating to have a new competitor."
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