Desi CEO of AI giant finds way to bypass Chinese censorship, privacy concerns for DeepSeek R1 users

Aravind Srinivas, the Indian-American co-founder and CEO of AI chatbot Perplexity, has found a way to bypass Chinese censorship and address privacy concerns surrounding DeepSeek R1, the viral language model that’s taking the world of artificial intelligence by storm lately.

Perplexity is basically tapping into the “open-source” nature of DeepSeek’s viral language model that allows anybody—individual, organisations, you name it—to deploy and build their own spin-off experiences out of it, free of cost.