Deepseek blocks foreign users, requires China phone numbers for registration and download; claims cyberattacks after outage – The Times of India
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, has restricted new user sign-ups to those with mainland China telephone numbers. Reason: The company is citing “large-scale malicious attacks” on its systems. This comes after a surge in demand following the release of its AI chatbot, which it claims rivals OpenAI‘s ChatGPT but was developed at a fraction of…