Everything you need to know about the Chinese AI that has ‘changed everything’ (the-independent.com)
Deepseek loaded for me, but it wouldn't repond to querries, Tuesday morning. I tried several times over a couple hours, then went back to ChatGPT (no login required) and Gemeni.
I think most people will conclude it's an attack from competitors (ie US companies and US government). However, it seems the same could be used against these companies, for example, a one-week DDoS against whatever the top one is during the release of a new foreign one. The frustration of lack of access would lead to signups for the new one. Both of these actions can be classified as in the interest of ‘national security’.
If you're trying to catch up, as China is to the US's tech, opensource is good for you.
I've also noticed that Brave browser seems to refuse to store the URL for Gemeni by Google. So you can't just type Gemeni into your URL and get an autocomplete. Even if you type it and hit load a few times, which usually stores the URL and lets you use it that way. You have to type a web search every time.