The U.S. Navy has banned the use of the AI chatbot application developed by Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek, CNBC reported on the 28th (local time).
According to the report, the U.S. Navy stated in an email sent to all DAEWON members on the 24th that DeepSeek's AI raises "potential security and ethical concerns regarding the origins and use of the model," adding, "it should not be used for any purpose."
CNBC noted that this warning from the U.S. Navy was based on recommendations from the U.S. Navy's Cyber Workforce Management Department of the Naval Aviation Combat Center. It also confirmed through a Spokesperson that the email was sent and explained that it is related to the Navy's generative AI policy.
DeepSeek has caused a stir with evaluations suggesting that the performance of its recently launched app can compete with those from major U.S. tech companies like OpenAI and Google, which created ChatGPT. Consequently, stocks of related corporations, including NVIDIA, have significantly fallen.
David Sacks, a venture capitalist and advisor on AI and cryptocurrency to the Trump administration, evaluated on a post on X (formerly Twitter) that "DeepSeek R1 shows that the competition for AI will be very fierce with China."
DeepSeek recently unveiled two AI models: it revealed the large language model (LLM) V3 last December and introduced the reasoning model R1 on the 20th.