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.”