However, like other Chinese AI chatbots operating under China's regulatory framework, DeepSeek's responses to politically sensitive topics reveal clear limitations. We tested DeepSeek in both Chinese and English on a range of topics,

Top White House advisers this week expressed alarm that China's DeepSeek may have benefited from a method that allegedly piggybacks off the advances of U.S. rivals called "distillation." The technique,

Deepseek collects similar data to American-based AI models, but Chinese laws could make that data more accessible to the government.