French privacy watchdog to quiz DeepSeek on AI and data protection risks

France's privacy watchdog, CNIL, will question Chinese startup DeepSeek to gain a better idea of how its AI system works and possible risks to users' privacy, a spokesperson for the watchdog said on Thursday.

DeepSeek has attracted global attention after writing in a paper last month that the training of DeepSeek-V3 required less than $6 million worth of computing power from Nvidia H800 chips.