Chinese tech startup Deepsek on Monday announced that it was targeted by cyber attack, disrupting new user registration on its platform. The company, which is known for its artificial intelligence, who has taken the technical industry captive, has described the incident as “large -scale malicious attacks”.

Despite the disruption, Deepsek confirmed that registered users could still log in and access the platform as usual.

Deepsek has drew significant attention to the AI ​​sector since launching a new AI model last month, claiming that it claimed people developed by American companies such as the Cut maker OpenaiI. The startup emphasized the cost efficiency of its model, especially in the use of NVDia chips to train the system on a large scale dataset.

The company’s chatbott achieved widespread performance earlier this year with release on Apple and Google App Stores. By Monday, it had climbed the top position as the most downloaded free app on Apple’s iPhone store, which outlines the rapid growth in popularity.

The success of AI Assistant of Dipsek has relied on debate on competition between China and the United States in the race to develop state -of -the -art AI technologies. While American tech analysts have noticed the sharp progress of the startup, some have expressed concern about the implication of a Chinese firm that achieves such progress on a part of the cost made by American contestants.

Established in Hangzho in 2023, Deepsek later released its first big language model that year, quickly established himself as a malignant player in the AI ​​landscape.