DeepSeek announced that they had been hit by a large-scale cyberattack and had restricted user registration.

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence lab funded largely by High-Flyer Capital Management, recently gained popularity after its chatbot rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts .

DeepSeek’s language models, which were trained using efficient computational methods, have many analysts and technologists in the West wondering whether the US can maintain its lead in the AI ​​race and whether demand for AI chips will persist. The worry has sent tech stocks, including top graphics processor maker Nvidia, tumbling , and Mark Zuckerberg hastening to announce that Meta plans to invest $60 billion in AI by 2025 .

The hype around DeepSeek became so great that even monobank co-founder Oleg Gorohovsky and the head of the Ministry of Digital Affairs, Mykhailo Fedorov, wrote cryptic, laconic posts about the startup. The latter later published a more detailed post on Telegram.

“We think DeepSeek is more of an evolution than a revolution: they have successfully combined existing developments and done it cheaper. But this is unlikely to affect the race to create AGI (super AI), which remains the main goal of the industry. The current market reaction may be exaggerated, but investors are starting to think about the effectiveness of large expenditures in AI (remember 500 billion on Stargate),” Fedorov noted.

Previously, dev.ua did a detailed analysis of how DeepSeek managed to outperform its competitors .