The U.S. Commerce Department is banning Chinese AI model DeepSeek on government devices, according to a message seen by Reuters and two people familiar with the matter, Karen Freifeld reports. “To help keep Department of Commerce information systems safe, access to the new Chinese based AI DeepSeek is broadly prohibited on all GFE,” said one mass email to staffers about their government-furnished devices. DeepSeek is a Chinese-built large-language open-source model that claims to rival offerings from Microsoft-backed (MSFT) OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta Platforms (META) but using a much smaller budget.
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