Cloud platform paradox creates enterprise risk
Despite the allegations, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Huawei, and Alibaba Cloud continue offering DeepSeek models to customers, making the startup’s AI widely accessible to enterprise users.
This corporate embrace contrasts sharply with government responses. The US Congress, Navy, Pentagon, NASA, and Texas have banned DeepSeek usage, while Italy blocked DeepSeek in a country-wide prohibition.
“The widespread availability of large language models via public cloud marketplaces, often with ambiguous provenance, unclear jurisdictional obligations, and hidden lineage, creates significant risk exposure for US enterprises,” Gogia warned. He noted that organizations are “effectively ingesting black-box models whose training data, hosting infrastructure, and developer affiliations may be misaligned with their compliance obligations.”
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