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DeepSeek’s top-ranked AI app is restricting sign-ups due to ‘malicious attacks’
New pressure in the face of popularity.
“Thanks for your understanding and support.” An alert banner on the DeepSeek web sign-up page says that “registration may be busy,” rather than entirely restricted, however, and encourages users to wait and “try again” if their application is unsuccessful. Outages and performance issues were reported by DeepSeek earlier today, which prevented users from signing in or creating new accounts. It was previously thought that DeepSeek’s systems may be under strain due to a huge influx of new users downloading the app, which is said to rival Western AI services like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropics Claude.
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