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Italy Blocks Chinese Chatbot DeepSeek

The Italian regulator has blocked a Chinese application with built-in synthetic intelligence DeepSeek.

This was reported by the regional regulator Garante.

The emergency situation order entered into impact immediately to safeguard the individual data of Italians.

The decision comes 2 days after Italy sent out a request about how DeepSeek uses users’ individual information. The regional regulator asked what information is gathered, why, and whether it is saved in China. However, the Chinese company’s response was considered “completely insufficient”. They said they do not operate in Italy and that European law does not apply to them.

The DeepSeek app has been missing from digital shops in Italy because January 29. The web variation, however, remained readily available – and it is still available today.

The Italian newspaper la Repubblica composes that the main page of DeepSeek states that usersʼ personal information is saved on servers in China, the content of chats with the bot can be used to train its algorithms, and the service ought to not be utilized by kids under 14. However, the Italian regulator asked for extra information, which it did not receive.

What is DeepSeek?

On January 27, DeepSeek surpassed ChatGPT to end up being the most popular free app on the App Store. On the same day, the Chinese chatbot was subjected to a large-scale cyberattack.

DeepSeek was founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, a 40-year-old graduate of the School of Information and . He established a shop for Nvidia A100 chips, which are now prohibited from being exported to China. Media reports recommend that this may have prompted him to launch DeepSeek, combining those chips with less expensive, lower-end ones that are still readily available for import.

DeepSeek is based on the open-source DeepSeek-V3 model. Some professionals say that the model was developed for less than $6 million – rivals invest much more. However, other experts dispute this information.