DeepSeek hit by outages – plus all the latest news about the ChatGPT rival
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Alongside the outage hitting DeepSeek and simultaneously pausing new registration, the AI company also has a family of new AI models all around images. DeepSeek claims its new multimodal AI models – available now on HuggingFace, a platform for AI development, can outpace OpenAI’s Dall-E 3.
The lineup of models dubbed ‘Janus-Pro’ by DeepSeek can create and analyze images. It’s clear that DeepSeek is looking to make a significant impact in the AI space, between an AI assistant and now with multi-modal capabilities. It remains to be seen when the outage will be resolved and what its exact cause is, though DeepSeek notes on its status page that it’s due to “large-scale malicious attacks” on its services.
While I am still waiting to start the process of creating an account – though I will try it with another sign-in method – my colleague and TechRadar’s Editor-at-Large, Lance Ulanoff, got a little further.
He writes: “After trying unsuccessfully to sign up on the web, I downloaded the iOS app and selected Signup. There’s a screen where you enter your email or phone number. I choose the former, set a password, and then hit the Send Code button. That triggers a challenge screen where you have to select the described object in an image (it’s always the smallest [something]). After that, the system always says it successfully sent the code to your email. But it never arrives.”
DeepSeek has yet to provide any further update beyond its original status page post, which you can see here.
Hello there, Jacob Krol – Managing Editor News US – stepping in here for our live updates on the DeepSeek outage. The company has not provided any further updates since the last one regarding “large-scale malicious attacks,” and as my colleague John-Anthony described, there’s no telling how long those could take to fix.
DeepSeek’s own status page still shows “Degraded Performance” for the website and the API. Further, if you’re trying to sign up for the service – especially considering its still number one on the Apple App Store in the US and UK – you’re still likely in limbo, waiting to get through that process.
Live updates on outage as they happen
DeepSeek appears to be working fine for me on my iPhone but I’ve noticed issues on my Google Pixel 8a. We’re going to continue to update this live blog with updates throughout the day, so stay tuned to know more about what’s going on with DeepSeek as it happens.
As it stands, the company is investigating the reported issues but “large-scale malicious attacks” definitely don’t sound like something with an easy fix.
What is DeepSeek?
If you want to know more about DeepSeek and everything it has to offer, we’ve got an excellent article titled “What is DeepSeek?“
There you’ll find all the information you need on the new AI chatbot and everything it has to offer, including quick comparisons with ChatGPT.
Is DeepSeek even good?
There’s a reason DeepSeek has seen worldwide success almost overnight, that’s because it’s a completely free-to-use app that has reasoning capabilities as good, if not better, than OpenAI’s ChatGPT o1.
Earlier today I experimented with DeepSeek and pitted it against ChatGPT’s reasoning model. You can read all about DeepSeek vs ChatGPT here.
DeepSeek limits new users
Hello, TechRadar’s Senior AI Writer John-Anthony Disotto here, and welcome to our DeepSeek liveblog.
DeepSeek, an AI chatbot from a Chinese start-up has exploded in popularity over the last few days and is now the most popular app in the US and UK App Store on iOS.
Following this overnight success, the AI tool has experienced issues with outages and reports of errors intermittently throughout the day.
At the time of writing, the latest status update on DeepSeek’s website reads: “Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek’s services, we are temporarily limiting registrations to ensure continued service. Existing users can log in as usual. Thanks for your understanding and support.”
Refresh 2025-01-27T23:08:39.766Z Alongside the outage hitting DeepSeek and simultaneously pausing new registration, the AI company also has a family of new AI models all around images. DeepSeek claims its new multimodal AI models – available now on HuggingFace, a platform for AI development, can outpace OpenAI’s Dall-E 3. The lineup…
