Forbes January 29, 2025
As rivals search for the secret to the company’s sudden AI success, others are sounding the alarm about security concerns — national ones.
Increasingly vocal members of the national security community have a message for those celebrating DeepSeek, the Chinese company that claims to have built an AI model on par with those of American tech giants, at a fraction of the cost: slow your roll. And if you work in government or security, don’t use the app.
Based in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, DeepSeek says in its privacy policy that the personal information it collects about its users — which includes things like “keystroke patterns or rhythms” and IP addresses — is stored “on secure servers located in...