Sanctions against DeepSeek. US congressmen banned from using Chinese AI assistant, chatbot blocked in Italy
After a wave of hype, the West began to treat Chinese development with caution.
After a wave of hype, the West began to treat Chinese development with caution.
The US Congress has banned its employees from using the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek, writes Axios.
“DeepSeek is currently under review in the U.S. House of Representatives and there is currently no authorization for official use,” the House’s chief administrative officer said in a memo to congressional offices.
Yes, congressmen were banned from downloading DeepSeek on any official phones, computers, and tablets.
Congress says that "malicious actors are already using DeepSeek to deliver malware and infect devices."
At the same time, in Italy, access to the Chinese AI assistant is blocked for users. At first, the chatbot first disappeared from digital stores on Google and Apple platforms. And then DeepSeek was decided to be blocked altogether. This restriction is designed to protect the data of Italian users. At the same time, the publication La Repubblica claimed that even after the blocking, the web version remained available.
Recall that a few days ago, the Italian agency DPA contacted DeepSeek with a request for information regarding the processing of data of millions of Italians. The Chinese startup has 20 days to respond.
The hype around DeepSeek
DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence lab funded largely by High-Flyer Capital Management, recently gained popularity after its chatbot rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts .
DeepSeek's language models, which were trained using efficient computational methods, have led many analysts and technologists in the West to wonder whether the US will be able to maintain its lead in the AI race and whether demand for AI chips will persist.
This excitement has caused stock prices in technology companies to fall , including top graphics processor manufacturer Nvidia, and Mark Zuckerberg hastened to announce that Meta plans to invest $60 billion in AI development by 2025 .
The hype around DeepSeek became so great that even monobank co-founder Oleg Gorohovsky and the head of the Ministry of Digital Affairs, Mykhailo Fedorov, wrote cryptic, laconic posts about the startup. The latter later published a more detailed post on Telegram.
dev.ua did a detailed analysis of how DeepSeek managed to outperform its competitors .
DeepSeek has also released a new set of multimodal AI models , which the Chinese company claims can outperform OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 image generator.
ChatGPT is reducing the cost of using the Plus version due to the popularity of the Chinese DeepSeek.
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