DeepSeek hit by outages as users flock to Chinese AI startup

Chinese startup DeepSeek was on Monday hit by outages on its website after its AI assistant became the top-rated free application available on Apple’s App Store in the United States. The company resolved issues relating to its application programming interface and users’ inability to log in to the website, according to its status page.

The outages on Monday were the company’s longest in around 90 days and coincides with its sky-rocketing popularity Powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, which its creators say “tops the leaderboard among open-source models and rivals the most advanced closed-source models globally”, the artificial intelligence application has surged in popularity among U.S.