The company on Thursday disabled the top-up button on its platform website. A notice attributed the change to “server resource constraints”, but added that “existing balances can still be used”.
DeepSeek Platform allows users to engage with its application programming interfaces, or APIs, which serve as a bridge to allow developers and apps to interact with the start-up’s AI models.
LLMs are AI models trained to understand human language and perform tasks, such as generating text or answering questions. Reasoning models are designed to perform logical reasoning and inference tasks.
After DeepSeek released its namesake chatbot on January 10, the app’s daily active users (DAUs) surged quickly to surpass 22 million by the end of the month, trailing only ChatGPT, which had 53 million DAUs at the time, according to market tracker Aicpb.com.
