American naval forces banned to their employees to use the artificial intelligence of Deepseek, created in China. The official letter sent through internal channels says that the use of Deepseek “in any quality” is unacceptable because of “potential threats to security and ethical problems.”
The ban is associated with the latest successes of Deepseek, which presented a new powerful R1 model, comparable to Openai development. Shortly after the release of Deepseek AI, he rapidly led the top loading top in the App Store, overtaking the ChatGPT. Investors are alarmed: the Chinese company said that it took less than $ 6 million and two months, which is much cheaper than Western analogues.
In the stock market, the reaction was swift – the NVIDIA and Broadcom shares collapsed by 17%, and Nasdaq lost 3.1%. It was worth the technological giants about $ 800 billion of capitalization. The reason for the panic is the possibility of reducing the costs of infrastructure for teaching AI, which will change the rules of the game in the industry.
The ban on the US Navy was declared a few days before these events. The letter on behalf of the head of the Navy information department says that the use of Deepseek is prohibited both for workers and for personal purposes. It is emphasized that users cannot be loaded, installed or applied to the Chinese model in any form.
At the same time, Deepseek announced a temporary suspension of registration of new users due to “large-scale attacks” to the platform, but soon resumed the work.
President Donald Trump commented on the situation by calling the success of Deepseek a “bell” for American companies. Its administration has already announced the start of the Stargate project, the joint venture of Openai, Oracle and SoftBank, aimed at the development of national and infrastructure.
In the meantime, four crisis “military headquarters” studying the risks associated with Deepseek have been created in Meta*. According to the head of Scale AI Alexander Vang, the Chinese model “amazes the market” and is not inferior in its capabilities to the best American developments. He called the situation “AI-Walker” between the United States and China.
* META and its products are recognized as extremist, their activities are prohibited in the territory of the Russian Federation.