"One thing we learned from DeepSeek is that open-sourcing the best models can greatly help adoption," said Baidu's Robin Li.

Chinese search engine group Baidu said on Tuesday that the success of AI company DeepSeek had inspired it to embrace an open source model, under which the source code of its upcoming generative AI chatbot release will be publicly available.

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, has temporarily paused downloads of its chatbot apps in South Korea while it works with local authorities to address privacy concerns, according to

South Korea becomes the latest country to temporarily suspend new downloads of the Chinese AI app, DeepSeek, due to concerns over its data

South Korea's data protection regulator has stated that the DeepSeek chatbot was sending user data from the country to the Chinese owner of TikTok, ByteDance. In response, DeepSeek expressed its willingness to cooperate with the commission,