DeepSeek impact: India keeps vigil as privacy fears run deep

The Indian government has been closely monitoring the surge of DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence model to the top of the app store charts amid concerns regarding data safety and sovereignty of citizens, particularly since the company is based in China, said people with knowledge of the matter. On Wednesday, Chinese giant Alibaba announced the latest release of its own AI model Qwen and said it exceeds the powers of the DeepSeek app.