DeepSeek has witnessed a surge in popularity since the release of its AI reasoning model R1, with several tech giants such as Microsoft, Nvidia, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) rushing to bring the open-source AI model into the fold of their respective cloud services. In India too, Union Minister of Information and Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw praised the progress made by the Chinese AI startup and said that its large language models (LLMs) will be hosted on domestic servers in India. “Data privacy issues regarding DeepSeek can be addressed by hosting open source models on Indian servers,” Vaishnaw reportedly said at...