US orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systems

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The U. S. has ordered federal civilian agencies to stop purchasing services and products developed by Chinese AI startup DeepSeek and remove them from government IT systems over national security concerns tied to the Chinese AI startup’s operations in China, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The Chinese AI model challenges its U. S. rivals, including OpenAI and Meta, with low-cost open-weight models. The U. S. accused DeepSeek and five other Chinese AI companies, including Alibaba and Moonshot AI, of using large-scale model distillation to extract information from American AI systems, according to a September report.

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