Perplexity also has a Deep Research tool now, and it’s powered by a version of DeepSeek R1. According to the announcement, the AI search engine’s new tool does “in-depth research and analysis on your behalf,” by crawling the web and compiles a comprehensive report of its findings. If Deep Research sounds familiar, that’s because Google … Read more
Major models including Google’s Gemma, Meta’s Llama, and even older OpenAI releases like GPT2 have been released under this open weights structure. Those models also often release open source code covering the inference-time instructions run when responding to a query. It’s currently unclear whether DeepSeek’s planned open source release will also include the code the … Read more
Feb 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Artificial Intelligence A new audit of DeepSeek’s mobile app for the Apple iOS operating system has found glaring security issues, the foremost being that it sends sensitive data over the internet sans any encryption, exposing it to interception and manipulation attacks. The assessment comes from NowSecure, which also found … Read more
New mobile apps from the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek have remained among the top three “free” downloads for Apple and Google devices since their debut on Jan. 25, 2025. But experts caution that many of DeepSeek’s design choices — such as using hard-coded encryption keys, and sending unencrypted user and device data to … Read more
Taiwan has become the latest country to ban government agencies from using Chinese startup DeepSeek’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform, citing security risks. “Government agencies and critical infrastructure should not use DeepSeek, because it endangers national information security,” according to a statement released by Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, per Radio Free Asia. “DeepSeek AI service … Read more
