Deepseek doesn’t pass the Navy Muster

The US Navy has issued a new warning to sailors warning against Deepseek AI due to ‘security and ethical concerns’, according to CNBC. It looks like the alarm was released by the US Navy on Friday, January 24, 2025, which is a few days before the app eventually paused new registrations and experienced a power outage on Monday, January 27, 2025.

As reported by CNBC, the US naval warning sounds, “We would like to draw attention to a critical update on a new AI model called Deepseek,” the email said. The note said it is “imperative” that team members do not use Deepseeks AI “for any work -related tasks or personal use.”

The US Navy confirmed the authenticity of the message and referred to its generative AI policy. The warning essentially constitutes a ban on Deepseek AI and its various models that instruct the recipients to “refrain from downloading, installing or using the Deepseek model in any capacity.”

Apparently, the US Navy must have had its reasoning beyond the power outage and reported malicious attacks that hit Deepseek AI three days later.

President Trump says Deepseek AI should be a ‘wake-up call’ for us AI businesses

President Trump, only two weeks into his second period, has commented on Deepseek and said, “The release of Deepseek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we must be laser-focused on competing to compete to win because we have the biggest scientists in the world, ”according to the Washington Post.

He described the launch of Deepseek AI as a “wake-up call,” and added that competitors in US-potentially Openai, Nvidia and Google shell be “laser-focused on winning.” Trump’s comments were also probably a reflection of Deepseek News’ influence on the US stock market. Most tech shares slipped, but AI GPU leader Nvidia had its worst day on the record.

It’s a surprising comment, but the follow-up statement was a little more confusing when President Trump reportedly stated that Deepseek’s breakthrough in more effective AI “could be positive because the technique is now also available to US companies” -It is not exactly the case but then The AI ​​Negnate does not share these details yet and is a Chinese owned company.

Nvidia calls Deepseek an ‘excellent AI -Avancement’

In addition to Openai’s Sam Altman, who shares his thoughts on Deepseek AI and promised much more from Chatgpt, Nvidia has also publicly commented and called Deepseek an “excellent AI advance.”

The response came after yesterday’s record-breaking $ 600 billion dollars stock body, the biggest decrease the shares have ever seen and largely a result of Deepseek’s performance and the cost of the AI ​​model. In addition to being impressed with R1, it is clear that Nvidia wants to remain an important part of the narrative.

The complete written statement sounds, “Deepseek is an excellent AI progress and a perfect example of test time scaling. Deepseeks work illustrates how new models can be created using this technique, utilizing widely available models and calculating that are fully export control compatible. Inference requires a significant number of NVIDIA GPUs and high performance networks. We now have three scaling laws: Premonition and continuing education that continue, and new test time scaling. “

Who actually owns Deepseek AI?

Deepseek was founded in mid -2023 by the Chinese hedge fund manager Liang Wenfeng, the company’s CEO. Liang founded High-Flyer, a hedge fund that uses AI to create trading strategies, back in 2015, according to a Washington Post profile, used this experience to develop large language models with its new Deepseek company.

How close is Deepseek’s connections to the Chinese government? Inevitably, the AI ​​app has gained a lot of new attention, but it apparently has not always been considered an AI star in China.

According to Matt Sheehan (an expert on China’s AI industry, they largely surprised the Chinese government. “

But Deepseek is now far from an unknown – and it will be interesting to see if or how it distances itself from the Chinese government to reduce those who grow privacy fears.

Is Deepseek safe to use?

We have made our own in -depth comparison of how Deepseek compares to Chatgpt, but since then some privacy alarm bells have been sounded about the app.

As noted by the BBC, Australia’s Science Minister Ed Husic, ABC News earlier today, told that there are plenty of unanswered questions about “data and privacy management” with Deepseek. “I would be very careful about it, this type of trouble must be weighed carefully,” he warned.

Deepseek’s privacy policy is quite open that “we store the information we collect on secure servers located in the People’s Republic of China”. This information includes your E -Mail address, phone number, date of birth and chat stories.

None of this is very different from the Privacy Policy for Chatgpt or Gemini, but the harvest of this information in China – and the fact that it is combined with “Actions you have taken outside the service” from advertisers – are tied to hold This alarm ring bells that rings higher in the coming days.

Will Deepseek -Hype item?

Techradar’s Editor-in-Store Lance Ulanoff has written a fine dismantling of DeeSek-Hype-there is questioning whether the chatbot, which is not yet multimodal, is worthy of the column inches it gets, and (quite reasonably) suggests that It is unlikely that the last thing in the United States, given Tiktok’s recent evil.

Comment on stock prices in Nvidia and others, he notes “with almost no information or real proof that Deepseek and its investors are transparent and truthful, investors have begun to pull their AI dollars from the US stock market.”

Even if we accept that Deepseek is a breakthrough, there are understandable questions about its lifetime in the United States. As Lance Ulanoff says “It doesn’t matter how good it is; this app won’t survive in the current US climate”.

Openais Sam Altman replies

Openais Sam Altman has now publicly commented on Deepseek for the first time and said on X (formerly Twitter) that the AI ​​model is “impressive” -and I can’t help but hear that in the Patrick Bateman voice in American Psycho Business card scene.

But he was also typically Bullish about Openai’s answer and said that “we will of course deliver much better models” and that it is “legitimately refreshing to have a new competitor”. Also also does not believe that the news changes the image in terms of chips, saying that “more calculation is more important now than ever before to succeed on our mission”.

The markets do not seem to agree, with the chip-making giant Nvidia suffering from the largest one-day market value in the United States history yesterday.

A quick Deepseek update

A little confused about Deepseek? Here’s a quick primer. The free AI -Chatbot was actually released on January 20, but has exploded in popularity over the past few days when tech fans realized its meaning. As the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen noticed on X (formerly Twitter), “Deepseek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment”.

The app is currently at the top of the free charts on the Apple’s App Store and Play Store in the US and many other countries, despite being made in China – which was the subject of a trade ban on advanced chips from Nvidia like NVIDIA.

Ironically, it is the trade restrictions that seem to have given rise to the ingenuity behind Deepseek, which was created using a small amount of the enormous computation power behind today’s large AI models.

Benchmark tests show that it can perform tasks such as answering questions and generating code as well as the current top AI models around. However, you may have trouble creating a Deepseek account it was forced to pause sign-ups after a major cyber attack.