“If I was an enterprise CIO, I would not use the hosted version of DeepSeek, from DeepSeek via the API. Their terms of service (ToS) explicitly states that they [DeepSeek] will log all queries, metadata, etc and that will be domiciled in China,” said Greg Ceccarelli, advisor at US-based venture capital firm Tola Capital.
While the use of DeepSeek’s models via cloud service providers and other platforms, such as Azure, AWS, Hugging Face, and Snowflake, is widely considered safe given that they don’t send back telemetry to DeepSeek, Eden Consulting’s Clifford said that the ban may encompass these companies as well and they may be forced to stop offering the model.
However, Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst at Omdia pointed out that model users, be those consumers or enterprises, need to be very careful about where they access this model, whether that’s stateside or overseas.
