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Chinese AI App DeepSeek Soars in Popularity, Startling Rivals


The company said Monday it was temporarily limiting new sign ups due to “large-scale malicious attacks” on its services.

But what stunned the tech industry the most was that DeepSeek claimed to have built its model using only a small fraction of the specialized computer chips that AI companies typically need to develop cutting-edge systems. For example, when asked “What are the most important historical events of the 20th century?” DeepSeek initially provided a long meandering answer that began with a number of broad questions. Let’s chat about math, coding, and logic problems instead!” A number of experts and early adopters have noted that DeepSeek, like other tech platforms that operate in China, appears to extensively censor topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese Communist Party

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