DeepSeek's privacy policy states it stores user data on Chinese servers. Such data is subject to Chinese law, which mandates cooperation with the country's intelligence agencies. DeepSeek also heavily censors topics considered sensitive by the Chinese government. But that's a bit different from offering DeepSeek's chatbot app itself. Since DeepSeek is open source, anybody can download the model, store it on their own servers, and offer it to their clients without sending the data back to China. During the Senate hearing, Smith said that Microsoft had managed to go inside DeepSeek's AI model and 'change' it to remove 'harmful side effects.' Microsoft did not elaborate on exactly what it did to DeepSeek's model, referring TechCrunch to Smith's remarks. While we can't help pointing out that DeepSeek's app is also a direct competitor to Microsoft's own Copilot internet search chat app, Microsoft doesn't ban all such chat competitors from its Windows app store. Perplexity is available in...
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