The Deepseek's app soon became known in the US after its release in January, raising to Top from us Apple stores and Google app and by caught Silicon Valley's attention. Deepseek differentiated itself from its competitors, as Chatgt, GeminiAND Clothbeing part of the cost to develop and introduce a ”reasoning“He chatbot who showed the job after her responses.

But employees of at least one large company are not allowed to use it.

Vice President of Microsoft and President Brad Smith said at a session in the Senate Thursday that Microsoft employees are forbidden to interact with the Deepseek Chatbot he over data security concerns and concerns that “Chinese propaganda” can penetrate the application responses.

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“In Microsoft, we do not allow our employees to use the Deepseek app,” Smith said, for Techcrunchexplaining that one of his main concerns was “the data returning to China”.

Smith said Microsoft has also blocked Deepseek in his app store, Microsoft Store. Deepseek is not listed in the store at the time of writing.

This marks the first time a Microsoft executive has spoken publicly about a deep ban in the company. Microsoft joins other organizations, such as NASA AND American Navyin blocking the app in the app for staff.

^{Microsoft President and Vice President Brad Smith. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images}

One of Smith's concerns was the intimacy of the data. Deepseek's Privacy policy says the company stores user data in China, where local laws Ask Chinese companies to share data with government officials upon request. This leads to concerns that the Chinese government can get into the user's data for its purposes.

However, it does not mean that Microsoft is not interested in Deepseek's technology.

Since Deepseek's model is open source, anyone can download the model and store it on their internal servers without the data of users to return to China. Microsoft offered the model of it After Deepseek through his service Azure Cloud in January, the day after the Deepseek app emerged viral.

Smith mentioned while hearing the senate that Microsoft downloaded the model and changed the code.

“It was possible for us to enter it, analyze it and change the code in the model … to remove harmful side effects,” Smith declared.

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Smith was talking to the Senate Committee on Trade, Science and Transport at a session entitled ”Winning the race: Strengthening American skills in computing and innovation“

Microsoft is the most valuable company in the world at the time of writing, with a market hat of over $ 3.2 trillion.