India's Concerns About Deepseek And Possible Regulatory Responses

The launch of open-source large language models ("LLMs") by Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. ("DeepSeek") has been met with various regulatory responses around the world. News reports indicate that government departments of several countries are extensively reviewing and/or have already prohibited DeepSeek's LLMs, including because of security concerns. While the Commerce Department of the United States initiated an investigation into DeepSeek's access to export-controlled chips and later banned the use of such AI model pursuant to concerns surrounding sensitive government information, Italian regulators blocked DeepSeek on account of personal data protection issues, potentially leading to European Union-wide scrutiny related to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). More recently, while a select committee of the US Congress released a report concluding, among other things, that DeepSeek represents a serious national