After surging to the top of Apple’s App Store charts in the US, DeepSeek’s AI Assistant is now restricting new user sign-ups. According to an incident report page, registrations are being temporarily limited “due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek’s services,

DeepSeek said it’s restricting signups for new users to people with a mainland China telephone number, claiming that its system had been targeted in “large-scale malicious attacks.”

Chinese startup DeepSeek said on Monday it is temporarily limiting registrations due to a large-scale malicious attack on its services.

The Chinese AI company DeepSeek cited recent "large-scale malicious attacks" for the temporary registration limits.

DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations "due to large-scale malicious attacks" on its services.