The attendance of the site DeepSeek flew from 300 thousand to 6 million, it was not without DDOS

The Chinese AIO-Startap Deepseek is faced with a sharp increase in interest in its products. According to the analytical service of Similarweb, the daily number of visits to the company’s website increased from 280 thousand to 6.2 million. Such a jump occurred after the release of December 26 of the third version of their V3 chatbot. In the following days, traffic began to grow rapidly, reaching 2 million visits per day.

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By the beginning of January, daily traffic to the DEPSEEK website reached 3.1 million visits, and by the end of the week they crossed the mark of 5 million. The peak of interest occurred on January 24, when the analytical service Similarweb recorded 6.2 million visits. According to PCMAG, this growth coincided with the dissemination of information that DeepSeek technologies can make serious competition to American companies in the artificial intelligence market (AI). Although the numbers regarding attendance are still significantly inferior to Openai, whose chatbot attracts more than 100 million people daily, the success of Deepseek obviously indicates a growing interest in the development of the company.

It is noted that one of the reasons for the popularity of DEPSEEK was their latest V3 and R1 models, which require significantly less computational resources and reduce the cost of their use. According to experts, the company uses such technologies that can strike at business models of American technological giants such as NVIDIA, Openai and Microsoft. “The deployment of frozen nuclear power plants was never a solution. We have great opportunities to increase the efficiency of AI, ”the Cloudflare General Director Matthew Prince expressed his opinion on Twitter.

However, the growth of the popularity of Deepseek attracted not only users, but also hackers. Yesterday morning, the company announced a “large -scale malicious attack” on its website, which even forced it to temporarily limit the registration of new users.

At the same time, existing users have saved access to the service, and Deepseek temporarily allowed registration only for users with Chinese phone numbers (+86). Nevertheless, later the restrictions were softened, as it was possible to partially cope with the technical difficulties that were caused by the DDOS attacked.