Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday said that India will soon host Chinese AI startup on Indian servers which will address the privacy concerns regarding cross-border data transfer.
“DeepSeek is open source, will host it on Indian servers soon. This will address the privacy concerns regarding cross-border data transfer," the Minister said.
He also announced that India will start AI safety institution.
“Making modern tech accessible to everyone, that is the economic thinking of our PM… Ours is the most affordable compute facility, at this point of time," he said.
DeepSeek hit the headlines recently for creating a sensation in the United States and other global markets for surpassing ChatGPT as the most popular free app on Apple Store.
The Chinese AI app, which was launched on January 20, is a low-cost resource-intensive chatbot whose R1 reasoning model reportedly costs merely $5.6 million of computing power compared to OpenAI’s GPT-4, which is for $100 million.
The Chinese AI app is being compared to ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Meta AI, however, there have been reports of the app censoring data and information.
US President Donald Trump has termed DeepSeek as a “wakeup call" for his country, however, he did not suggest that it posed a threat to the US national security.
However, Australian Science Minister Ed Husic said that he would be “very careful" about the Chinese app’s data and privacy management.
“When you use our Services, we may collect your text or audio input, prompt, uploaded files, feedback, chat history, or other content that you provide to our model and Services…the personal information we collect from you may be stored on a server located outside of the country where you live. We store the information we collect in secure servers located in the People’s Republic of China," the terms of the app read.
This may imply that DeepSeek collects data of the user’s name, birth, email address, audio, text or previous chats, IP, operating system and keystroke patterns and stores the information on servers in China.
Source: NDTV