DeepSeek opens access to its API after a three-week pause
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has restored access to its API after a nearly three-week service outage due to capacity constraints.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has restored access to its API after a nearly three-week service outage due to capacity constraints.
The company today began allowing customers to top up credits for its API, which allows developers to build apps and services based on cloud-based versions of its DeepSeek AI. However, server resources remain overloaded during the day, a company spokesperson warned, according to TechCrunch.
As a reminder, earlier this month DeepSeek suspended the ability for users to top up API credits due to a lack of server capacity.
DeepSeek rose to prominence earlier this year after releasing its publicly available “reasoning” model R1 , which matches or even surpasses the performance of some of OpenAI’s top models.
DeepSeek's competitiveness has prompted OpenAI to consider making more of its technology open access and "pushing up" some product releases.
DeepSeek’s domestic competitors are also ramping up production of their models. On the same day that DeepSeek resumed API updates, Chinese tech giant Alibaba released a preview of its latest AI model, QwQ-Max, which the company plans to release as open source.
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DeepSeek's AI spending is much higher than the stated $5.5 million: analysts call a completely different figure, exceeding $1 billion
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