The country occasionally known as the Czech Republic has banned DeepSeek over concerns about its large language model (LLM) and eponymous chatbot sharing information with the Chinese government.
DeepSeek was founded in 2023, but it didn't attract many headlines until the global launch of iOS and Android apps in January. The company said its LLM offered numerous advantages over its Western rivals, including more efficient resource usage borne from low-level optimizations, and it didn't take long for its app to dethrone ChatGPT from the App Store's rankings.
