Hacks, restrictions and censorship: The battle over DeepSeek as AI enters new phase

The upstart ChatGPT competitor DeepSeek has investors challenging their pre-existing notions of the spending required to develop artificial-intelligence tools. But the Chinese company has also found itself facing challenges of its own on Monday — including hacks and accusations of censorship. DeepSeek was founded in 2023, and it just released its R1 large language AI model last week. Like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, DeepSeek’s model is designed for natural language processing — but, unlike the newest versions of ChatGPT, DeepSeek’s open-source model means that any AI developer can use it.