今晨嘗試註冊DeepSeek，卻始終無法註冊；其可能遭大量的網攻或大量註冊，導致系統繁忙，無法發送驗證碼；真實的原因尚待查明。不過，DeepSeek一發表，震撼AI產業，造成股市震盪，可以想見的是有人不樂見此情；有人憂心忡忡；有人眼紅；有人會發動網攻，也見怪不怪；美國一再防堵，一再封鎖中國尤其科技產業，中國還是能殺出重圍，華人智慧勢不可擋。
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DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it’s limiting registrations
DeepSeek稱遭到大規模網路攻擊致註冊被限
DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services, though existing users will be able to log in as usual.
The Chinese artificial intelligence startup has generated a lot of buzz in recent weeks as a fast-growing rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and other leading AI tools.
DeepSeek星期一說道：因遭到大規模蓄意攻擊，其將暫時凍結使用者註冊；已註冊者仍可登錄使用。
中國人工智能新創公司在這幾週快速成為像OpenAI的 ChatGPT, Google的Gemini 與其他人工智能工具的對手並引起不小聲量。
Earlier on Monday, DeepSeek took over rival OpenAI’s coveted spot as the most-downloaded free app in the U.S. on Apple’s App Store, dethroning ChatGPT for DeepSeek’s own AI Assistant. It helped inspire a significant sell-off in global tech stocks.
Buzz about the company, which was founded in 2023 and released its R1 model last week, has spread to tech analysts, investors and developers, who say that the hype — and ensuing fear of falling behind in the ever-changing AI hype cycle — may be warranted. Especially in the era of the generative AI arms race, where tech giants and startups alike are racing to ensure they don’t fall behind in a market predicted to top $1 trillion in revenue within a decade.
DeepSeek reportedly grew out of a Chinese hedge fund’s AI research unit in April 2023 to focus on large language models and reaching artificial general intelligence, or AGI — a branch of AI that equals or surpasses human intellect on a wide range of tasks, which OpenAI and its rivals say they’re fast pursuing.
The buzz around DeepSeek especially began to spread last week, when the startup released R1, its reasoning model that rivals OpenAI’s o1. It’s open-source, meaning that any AI developer can use it, and has rocketed to the top of app stores and industry leaderboards, with users praising its performance and reasoning capabilities.
圍繞著DeepSeek的聲量，特別是上個星期開始蔓延，當此新創公司發表R1，其推論模型與OpenAI o1形成勁敵關係。其所謂的開源模式，使得任何AI開發者接 可利用，一推出成為APP商店下載率最高。
The startup’s models were notably built despite the U.S. curbing chip exports to China three times in three years. Estimates differ on exactly how much DeepSeek’s R1 costs, or how many graphics processing units went into it. Jefferies analysts estimated that a recent version had a “training cost of only US$5.6m (assuming US$2/H800 hour rental cost). That is less than 10% of the cost of Meta’s Llama.”
But regardless of the specific numbers, reports agree that the model was developed at a fraction of the cost of rival models by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others.
As a result, the AI sector is awash with questions, including whether the industry’s increasing number of astronomical funding rounds and billion-dollar valuations is necessary — and whether a bubble is about to burst.