South Korea's government and private companies are restricting the use of the Chinese artificial intelligence service DeepSeek following similar moves by other countries.
The country’s defense ministry has blocked DeepSeek from military networks. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has asked the Chinese AI startup to clarify how it handles user data.
Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek upended the global industry and wiped billions of US tech stocks when it unveiled its R1 program, which it claims was built on cheap, less sophisticated Nvidia ...
Despite the technical concerns, the number of weekly users of the DeepSeek app in Korea has surpassed 1.2 million, ranking it second among generative AI apps after ChatGPT with 4.93 million users.