At least one of the big AI brains at the Chinese chatbot leader DeepSeek has announced that he’s worried—like many U.S. AI luminaries before him—that AI will hurt the world. But in China, unlike the U.S., the state can and does regulate tech with a heavy hand, and in that context such a sentiment comes […]
DeepSeek Model ‘Nearly 100% Successful’ at Avoiding Controversial Topics
Meet the new DeepSeek, now with more government compliance. According to a report from Reuters, the popular large language model developed in China has a new version called DeepSeek-R1-Safe, specifically designed to avoid politically controversial topics. Developed by Chinese tech giant Huawei, the new model reportedly is “nearly 100% successful” in preventing discussion of politically […]
We Finally Know How Much It Cost to Train China’s Astonishing DeepSeek Model
Remember when DeepSeek briefly shook up the entire artificial intelligence industry by launching its large language model, R1, that was trained for a fraction of the money that OpenAI and other big players were pouring into their models? Thanks to a new paper published by the DeepSeek AI team in the journal Nature, we finally […]
UAE Lab Releases Open-Source Model to Rival China’s DeepSeek
The United Arab Emirates wants to compete with the U.S. and China in AI, and a new open source model may be its strongest contender yet. An Emirati AI lab called the Institute of Foundation Models released K2 Think on Tuesday, a model that researchers say rivals OpenAI’s ChatGPT and China’s DeepSeek in standard benchmark […]
U.S. House Panel Says China’s DeepSeek AI Is a ‘Profound Threat’ to National Security
A bipartisan House committee on Wednesday recommended placing restrictions on the export of AI models to China after concluding that DeepSeek trained its low-cost models using data from OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It also suggested imposing prohibitions on federal agencies procuring AI models from China, which does not seem like something that was going to happen anyway. […]
Singapore Scheme May Have Funneled Nvidia Chips to DeepSeek
A local case of fraud in Singapore might be the tip of the iceberg for some international AI intrigue. According to Reuters, three people were charged with fraud for allegedly lying about the delivery of items to a server supplier. Local media reports indicate that those “items” may have been high-end Nvidia chips that may […]
Cybersecurity Experts Warn of DeepSeek Vulnerabilities as Governments Ban App
A cybersecurity company is warning businesses and organizations not to use a popular app from the generative AI company DeepSeek, saying that the program contains a number of security vulnerabilities that could compromise users’ data. The DeepSeek app, which shocked the stock market when it moved to the top of the Apple App Store in […]
DeepSeek Gets an ‘F’ in Safety From Researchers
Usually when large language models are given tests, achieving a 100% success rate is viewed as a massive achievement. That is not quite the case with this one: Researchers at Cisco tasked Chinese AI firm DeepSeek’s headline-grabbing open-source model DeepSeek R1 with fending off 50 separate attacks designed to get the LLM to engage in […]