Taiwan has banned all its government agencies and critical infrastructure service providers from using technology from Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, citing security concerns. reported the Bloomberg.
In January 2024, DeepSeek released a new open-source artificial intelligence platform, raising international alarm about its competitiveness with the world's leading AI bots.
The DeepSeek model was developed and appears to have been trained at a fraction of the cost of competing platforms, demonstrating that advanced AI applications can be built without a huge investment in hardware.
The company's free app of the same name has also gained popularity worldwide, topping mobile download rankings in many countries.
But obstacles are already appearing in DeepSeek's path to growth as governments and businesses consider its potential cybersecurity implications and the possibility that data and other information collected by the Hangzhou-based company could be shared with the Chinese government.
Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Technology has said that no official or confidential information should be used to query DeepSeek, given its Chinese origin.
"This is a product that endangers national information security," — the ministry's statement says.
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