Confused about DeepSeek and want the latest news on the biggest AI story of 2025 so far?
Here’s a quick primer.
Will the DeepSeek hype last?
You can get at DeepSeek R1 from the Perplexity iOS and web apps
Is DeepSeek safe to use?
That information includes your email address, phone number, date of birth and chat histories.
Who actually owns DeepSeek AI?
You can get at DeepSeek R1 from the Perplexity iOS and web apps
How close are DeepSeek’s links to the Chinese government?
Inference requires significant numbers of NVIDIA GPUs and high-performance networking.
We now have three scaling laws: pre-training and post-training, which continue, and new test-time scaling.
The U.S. Navy confirmed the notice’s authenticity and referred to its generative AI policy.
A big OpenAI bombshell
Good morning and welcome to our DeepSeek liveblog.
The assumption that tariffs could contain Chinas technological ambitions is being dismantled in real time.
By restricting Chinas access to high-end semiconductors, Washington sought to slow its progress in AI.
Instead, it has fueled an acceleration in domestic innovation, forcing Chinese firms to find alternatives.
DeepSeeks achievement is a direct result of this shift," he added.
But because DeepSeek is open source, some potential workarounds have emerged for the data-concerned.
“In summary, while Deepseeks story is intriguing, its imperative to separate fact from speculation.
The market needs to temper its enthusiasm and demand more transparency before awarding DeepSeek the crown of AI innovation.
Until then, skepticism remains a healthy and necessary stance” he added.
John-Anthony Disotto, TechRadar’s resident Senior AI Writer, taking over this DeepSeek live coverage.
It feels like a lifetime ago I was writing myfirst impressions of DeepSeekon Monday morning.
I also asked both models to finish an impossible sequence:house, Saturn, dog, burger, ?
Both reasoning models attempted to find an answer and gave me a completely different one.
Are you worried about DeepSeek?
Privacy and security is a huge talking point at the moment in the DeepSeek discussion.
Think twice before you download DeepSeek for the time being".
Not long after ChatGPT returned to the Italian App Store.
Even if DeepSeek doesn’t stick around for long it has had a massive impact on the status quo.
We’ll let you know when the status updates again.
Its free, good at fetching the latest info, and a solid option for users.
US Navy bans use of DeepSeek “in any capacity”.
TechRadar’s Matt Hanson created a Windows 11 virtual machine to use DeepSeek AI within a sandbox.
Our full guide, which includes step-by-step instructions for creating a Windows 11 virtual machine, can befound here.
You can get at DeepSeek R1 from the Perplexity iOS and web apps
And as Hanson writes, “It’s always better to be safe than sorry.”
DeepSeek AI wrote, I only process and respond to the text you directly input into this chat interface.
Your privacy and data security are important, and I am designed to respect and protect them.
DeepSeek is partly down
Is DeepSeek a win for Apple?
Could Apple emerge from the current turmoil of the AI market as the real winner?
Tomos Goger, CEO of Rossumwriting for TechRadar Prothinks so.
By staying out of the early stages of the AI arms race, Apple may have saved billions.
It looks like its strategy of not taking the lead could be paying off.
you’ve got the option to try Qwen2.5-Max yourself using the freely availableQwen Chatbot.
New DeepSeek security concerns
Cybersecurity researchers Wiz claim to have discovered a new DeepSeek security vulnerability.
Wiz claims to have gained full operational control of the database that belongs to DeepSeek within minutes.
Why does DeepSeek think it is ChatGPT?
The first is DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B, which is out now in Microsoft’s AI Toolkit for Developers.
You’ll first need a Qualcomm Snapdragon X-powered machine and then roll out to Intel and AMD AI chipsets.
Either way, DeepSeek is a disruptor in the tech and AI space, as other companies have noted.
DeepSeek is still (partly) down
DeepSeek still seems to be experiencing severe issues.
)", before launching a standard DeepSeek query instead of a live web search.
This includes the creation of the DualPipe algorithm for efficient pipeline parallelism."
