For the past few days, DeepSeek has been shaking up the American technology world, to the point that the financial markets have temporarily collapsed. This Chinese artificial intelligence claims to be more efficient than ChatGPT, the essential chatbot from OpenAI.
The generative AI has even established itself at the top of the most downloaded applications on the App Store in many countries, ahead of ChatGPT. Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI, was forced to admit that he finds DeepSeek, whose announced cost does not exceed six million dollars, "impressive." Above all, "because of what they are able to provide for the price," he emphasizes.
DeepSeek faces a wave of attacks
In this context, Chinese AI has quickly become a victim of its success. On the evening of Monday, January 27, 2025, the Chinese company announced that it had observed "large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek's services". Everything suggests that cybercriminals decided to paralyze the group's services, probably by overloading the service with requests.
DeepSeek was forced to temporarily restrict registrations to its chatbot service. On its official website, DeepSeek explains that it is "temporarily limiting registrations to ensure continuity of service". However, "existing users can log in as usual". Earlier, DeepSeek restricted registrations to individuals with a "mainland China mobile phone number."
How to test DeepSeek despite the registration restriction?
On a smartphone, we found that it was possible to start the process of a new registration. Unfortunately, this does not work. It seems that DeepSeek does not send the connection code that would allow us to validate our email address. It is therefore impossible to complete the registration. More generally, we have the impression that the services are overloaded.
If you did not open an account before the wave of cyberattacks, you may not be able to access DeepSeek. To test the Chinese AI model, you can however turn to alternatives.
Perplexity has recently given access to DeepSeek-V3, the open source Chinese model at the source of DeepSeek. The American start-up specifies that the model is hosted in data centers in the United States and Europe. No need to send your data to China to converse with DeepSeek.
The same story from Groq, an American company specializing in artificial intelligence founded by former Google employees. Through its platform, it allows you to converse with DeepSeek's AI model.
Source: Deepseek
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