DeepSeek

February 25, 2025 6:33 PM

DeepSeek rushes to launch new AI model as China goes all in

DeepSeek is looking to press home its advantage. The Chinese startup triggered a $1 trillion-plus sell-off in global equities markets last month with a cut-price AI reasoning model that outperformed many Western competitors. Now, the Hangzhou-based firm is accelerating the launch of the successor to January's R1 model, according to three people familiar with the company. Deepseek had planned to release R2 in early May but now wants it out as early as possible, two of them said, without provid...

February 17, 2025 9:41 AM

New downloads of DeepSeek suspended in South Korea, data protection agency says

South Korea's data protection authority on Monday said new downloads of the Chinese AI app DeepSeek had been suspended in the country after DeepSeek acknowledged failing to take into account some of the agency's rules on protecting personal data. The service of the app will be resumed once improvements are made in accordance with the country's privacy law, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said in a media briefing. The measure that came into force on Saturday aims to block ...

February 10, 2025 2:33 PM

South Korea spy agency says DeepSeek ‘excessively’ collects personal data

South Korea's spy agency has accused Chinese AI app DeepSeek of "excessively" collecting personal data and using all input data to train itself, and questioned the app's responses to questions relating to issues of national pride. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said it sent an official notice to government agencies last week urging them to take security precautions over the artificial intelligence app. "Unlike other generative AI services, it has been confirmed that chat records are t...

February 3, 2025 12:27 PM

DeepSeek gives Europe’s tech firms a chance to catch up in global AI race

Hemanth Mandapati, boss of German startup Novo AI, was an early adopter of DeepSeek chatbots when he switched to the Chinese AI model from OpenAI's ChatGPT two weeks ago. "If you have built your application using OpenAI, you can easily migrate to the other ones ... it took us minutes to switch," he said in an interview on the sidelines of the GoWest conference for venture capitalists in Gothenburg, Sweden. DeepSeek's emergence is changing the landscape for AI, offering companies access to the ...

February 2, 2025 12:08 PM

Dutch privacy watchdog to launch investigation into China’s DeepSeek AI

The Netherlands' privacy watchdog AP on Friday said it will launch an investigation into Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek's data collection practices and urged Dutch users to exercise caution with the company's software. "The AP is (issuing this) warning because of the serious concerns that there are over DeepSeek's privacy policies ... and the way in which it appears to use personal information," Chairman Aleid Wolfsen said in a statement. The agency added that European citizens' ...

January 28, 2025 12:18 PM

American AI firms try to poke holes in disruptive DeepSeek

Developers at leading U.S. AI firms are praising the DeepSeek AI models that have leapt into prominence while also trying to poke holes in the notion that their multi-billion dollar technology has been bested by a Chinese newcomer's low-cost alternative. Chinese startup DeepSeek on Monday sparked a stock selloff and its free AI assistant overtook OpenAI's ChatGPT atop Apple's App Store in the U.S., harnessing a model it said it trained on Nvidia's lower-capability H800 processor chips using und...