US Government Report Warns DeepSeek AI Models Pose National Security Risks Despite Performance Gaps

U.S. government report reveals China's DeepSeek AI models pose national security threats, proving 12 times more likely to follow malicious instructions than American competitors while costing 35% more than OpenAI's equivalent technology, prompting lawmakers to consider banning the system from government devices.

• A U.S. government report warns that China's DeepSeek AI models pose national security risks despite trailing American competitors in performance and cost
• DeepSeek's most secure model proves 12 times more likely to follow malicious instructions compared to U.S. frontier models and produces 4 times more inaccurate responses on politically sensitive questions
• The National Institute of Standards and Technology evaluation shows OpenAI's GPT-5 mini costs 35% less than DeepSeek while achieving the same results, as lawmakers push to ban DeepSeek on government devices