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South Korea's PIPC chief stresses potential of DeepSeek's open-weight model

By Wooyoung Lee ( March 21, 2025, 08:35 GMT | Insight) -- Despite the ongoing controversy over the data practices of Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot DeepSeek, the company’s open-weight model has potential to spur the development of tens of thousands of AI applications, the head of South Korea’s privacy regulator said today. Ko Hak-soo, chairman of the Personal Information Protection Commission, called for a shift in focus to broader opportunities that open-weight models present, especially for South Korean companies, while stressing the potential of such models to help foster a new AI ecosystem.Despite the ongoing controversy over the data practices of Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot DeepSeek, the company’s open-weight model has potential to spur the development of tens of thousands of AI applications, the head of South Korea’s privacy regulator said today....

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