It seems that EqualyzAI, the main company mentioned in the article, isn’t even using a hosted version of DeepSeek. They’re running the model themselves on their own hardware, so nobody but EqualyzAI is seeing this data, not even DeepSeek or Huawei.
(Edit: Also EqualyzAI only has to pay for the server costs of running the model, they don’t have to pay DeepSeek anything to be able to self host it.)
Who’s doing what is kind of fuzzy - as worded, it implies that Huawei is doing the digitization and ingestion and EqualyzAI is getting a model produced with custom training weights. I would assume that whatever’s getting integrated is winding up as part of DeepSeek sensu lato because why wouldn’t it?
Even if there weren’t potential issues with that, the broader problem is the uses these models are being put to - see my other comment below. It’s one thing to use an LLM for sentiment analysis or coding help and quite another to use them for actual advice or information that might significantly impact decision making.
It seems that EqualyzAI, the main company mentioned in the article, isn’t even using a hosted version of DeepSeek. They’re running the model themselves on their own hardware, so nobody but EqualyzAI is seeing this data, not even DeepSeek or Huawei.
(Edit: Also EqualyzAI only has to pay for the server costs of running the model, they don’t have to pay DeepSeek anything to be able to self host it.)
Who’s doing what is kind of fuzzy - as worded, it implies that Huawei is doing the digitization and ingestion and EqualyzAI is getting a model produced with custom training weights. I would assume that whatever’s getting integrated is winding up as part of DeepSeek sensu lato because why wouldn’t it?
Even if there weren’t potential issues with that, the broader problem is the uses these models are being put to - see my other comment below. It’s one thing to use an LLM for sentiment analysis or coding help and quite another to use them for actual advice or information that might significantly impact decision making.