The South Korean government said on Monday that it had temporarily suspended new downloads of an artificial intelligence -chatbot made by Deepseek, the Chinese company that sent shock waves through the technical world.
On Monday evening the app was not available in the Apple or Google App stores in South Korea, although Deepseek was still accessible via a web browser. Regulators said that the app service would be resumed after they had ensured that it had complied with the laws of South Korea about the protection of personal information.
Since the release last month, the Chinese chatbot has at the top last month at the top of the charts of most downloaded apps around the world. The app is powered by an AI system whose performance of the top products were made by American companies and was built, Deepseek said, for a fraction of their costs.
The Deepseek's claims that it has built its technology with much less expensive computer chips than companies usually used the American technical shares that tumbled last month and caused a debate about whether Washington failed in his attempts to block China's access to such chips .
The success of Deepseek has supported the little -known company, which is supported by a stock trade. Deepseek has been announced in China as a hero of the technical industry of the country. The founder of the company, Liang Wenfeng, met the Chinese sky, Xi Jinping, together with other technical managers on Monday.
But outside of China, the popularity of the app has been concerned about the supervisors about security, censorship and the management of sensitive data from Deepseek.
The app was one of the most popular downloads in South Korea in the artificial intelligence category. Earlier this month, South Korea sent many government employees not to use Deepseek products on official devices.
Government agencies in Taiwan and Australia have also told employees that they should not use Deepseek products about security problems.
The Personal Information Protection Commission from Zuid -Korea said it had identified problems with the way in which the app processes personal information, and added that it decided: “It would inevitably cost a considerable amount of time to correct”. To tackle these concerns, Deepseek had appointed an agent in South Korea last week, the regulator said.
The Chinese government always obliges Chinese companies to carry out foreign activities in strict compliance with local laws and regulations, said Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during a briefing on Monday.
“We also hope that relevant countries will avoid the approach to generalizing and politicizing economic, trade and technological issues,” said Mr. Guo.
Li you contributed research.
