India To Host DeepSeek On Its Servers Soon: Report

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model DeepSeek will be hosted on Indian tech servers soon, confirmed Union IT Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, as reported by Moneycontrol. 

In a press briefing of IndiaAI Mission, Vaishnaw stressed that such open-source models can help countries with better data security and compliance with Indian regulations. 

According to Moneycontrol, he stated that DeepSeek is an open-source model, similar to LLama, and can be hosted on Indian servers. He emphasised that data privacy concerns related to DeepSeek can be addressed by hosting open-source models within India.

Vaishnaw also touched upon the significance of distillation in AI models and assured Indian models will be open source.

Further, the IT Minister said that on the line to democratise the technology, India’s AI mission is constantly working. Today, as India empaneled 19,000 GPUs as a crucial step in its AI journey, the Minister highlighted for context that DeepSeek was trained using 2,000 GPUs. 

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In addition, as per Vaishnaw government is closely monitoring the potential risk related to DeepSeek. Earlier, In 2020 the Indian government banned many Chinese apps like TikTok and WeChat due to territorial tensions but as the government is planning to allow DeepSeek on its server they will keep an eye to protect citizen sovereignty.