The president says Microsoft employees are prohibited from using the Deepseek app

Microsoft Vice President and President Brad Smith said in the Senate that Microsoft employees are not allowed to use Deepseek due to data security and advertising interests. hearing today.

“In Microsoft, we do not allow our employees to use Deepseek”, referring to the Deepseek app (available on both desktop and mobile.)

Smith said that Microsoft did not put Deepseek in the application store on those concerns as well.

Although Many organizations and even countries have imposed restrictions on DeepseekThis is the first time that Microsoft has been subjected to this ban.

Smith said that the restriction stems from the risk of storing data in China and that Dibsic answers can be affected by “Chinese propaganda”.

Dibsic privacy policy States It stores user data on Chinese servers. Such data is subject to Chinese law, which Delegation Cooperation with the country’s intelligence agencies. Dibsic also Censorship Topics the Chinese government considers sensitive.

Despite Smith’s critical comments about Deepseek, Microsoft Show Dibsic The R1 model on the Azure Cloud service shortly after its launch earlier this year.

But this is a little different from the introduction of the Deepseek’s chatbot itself. Since the open source Deepseek, anyone can download the model, store it on his own servers and present it to his customers without sending data to China.

However, this does not remove other risks such as the model that spreads propaganda or generates an unsafe symbol.

During the Senate session, Smith said that Microsoft was able to go to the AI ​​Deepseek model and “change it” to remove the “harmful side effects”. Microsoft did not explain exactly what it did for the Deepseek model, with a sign of Techcrunch to Smith’s notes.

In its initial launch of Deepseek on Azure, Microsoft books This Deepseek underwent “strict and safe collective assessments” before putting on Azure.

Although we cannot help indicate that the Deepseek app is also a direct competitor to the Search chat online chat from Microsoft, Microsoft does not prohibit all chat competitors from its Windows App Store.

Confusion is available in the Windows App Store, for example. Although any Microsoft Microsoft applications (including Chrome and Chatbot Gemini from Google) did not appear in our Webstore search.