Tim Cook says China’s DeepSeek AI is ‘excellent’ during visit to country

China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot doesn’t exactly have the best of reputations. It has exposed chat history and other sensitive data; the iOS app has been shown to have multiple security flaws; is under investigation in both the US and Europe; and ARM’s CEO believes it will end up being banned in the US. But none of this has stopped Apple CEO Tim Cook describing it as “excellent” during a visit to Beijing for the China Development Forum … China’s DeepSeek DeepSeek is an AI chatbot developed in China which quickly climbed to the #1 slot in Apple’s App Store. China posted benchmarks indicating that its performance was comparable to the world’s best existing models. Experts quickly verified the claims, expressing shock that China was able to achieve this at a fraction of the development cost of US models, and running locally on very modestly-specced PCs – though it was later suggested the cost differential was exaggerated. Privacy concerns quickly led to investigations being opened in both ... Read full article.