US congressional offices asked to disable DeepSeek

Reuters quoted a report from the US Axios news website on January 30 that the Chief Administrative Affairs Officer of the US House of Representatives sent a notice to congressional offices, warning them not to use the services of China’s artificial intelligence application DeepSeek.

The notice reportedly said: “Currently, DeepSeek is under review by the Chief Administrative Affairs Officer, and the House of Representatives has not yet been authorized to officially use the model.”

The emergence of this low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model threatens the market dominance of US artificial intelligence leaders such as the Open Artificial Intelligence Research Center (OpenAI) and Google.