DeepSeek is the new AI chatbot on everybody’s lips and is currently sitting at the top of Apple’s App Store in the US and the UK. A completely free AI model built by a Chinese start-up, DeepSeek wants to make AI even more accessible to the masses by offering a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT o1 reasoning model without a fee.

DeepSeek said that it’s investigating an outage that disrupted service and prevented signups after new users rushed to download the Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot.

An AI chatbot backed by the French government has been taken offline shortly after it launched, after providing nonsensical answers to simple mathematical equations and even recommending that one user eat cow’s eggs.

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Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Donald Trump advisor Marc Andreessen described DeepSeek-R1 as "AI's Sputnik moment", a reference to the satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. At the time, the US was considered to have been caught off-guard by their rival's technological achievement.

ChatGPT, the massively popular conversational chatbot, was down for a short time before the issue was resolved, according to an OpenAI status update.

OpenAI's AI chatbot platform, ChatGPT, suffered a major outage Thursday. But the company claims that service has been restored.

Breaking down the strengths, weaknesses, and real-world performance of a leading AI chatbot taking on a new challenger from China.

It can also ask follow-up questions to further personalize the tasks it completes, such as login information for other websites. Users can take control of the screen at any time.

The secondhand marketplace says consumers are already reaping the benefits of the AI-enabled customer service tool.

Barrett Woodside, co-founder of the San Francisco AI hardware company Positron, said he and his colleagues have been abuzz about DeepSeek.