BRUSSELS: France’s privateness watchdog stated on Thursday (Jan 30) it is going to query DeepSeek to achieve a greater thought of how the Chinese startup’s AI system works and any potential privateness dangers for customers.
DeepSeek attracted international consideration after writing in a paper final month that the coaching of DeepSeek-V3 required lower than US$6 million price of computing energy from Nvidia H800 chips.
“The CNIL’s AI division is at present analysing this device,” a spokesperson for the French watchdog stated.
“As a way to higher perceive how this AI system works and the dangers when it comes to knowledge safety, the CNIL will query the corporate that gives the DeepSeek chatbot,” they added.
The French watchdog is among the most lively in Europe and has fined Google and Meta Platforms, amongst others.
Italy’s knowledge safety authority stated earlier this week it was in search of solutions from DeepSeek on its use of private knowledge, whereas Eire’s Information Safety Fee stated it had requested info from the Chinese language firm about knowledge processing carried out in relation to Irish customers.
