DeepSeek 是一种功能强大、广受欢迎且相对廉价的人工智能模型，来自中国。
DeepSeek is a powerful, popular and relatively inexpensive artificial intelligence model out of China.
作者：Kali Hays 美国已下令将中国公司 DeepSeek 的所有人工智能（AI）技术从大多数政府系统中移除。
By Kali Hays The US has ordered all artificial intelligence (AI) technology from the Chinese firm DeepSeek to be removed from most government systems.
国土安全部（DHS）已禁止在平民政府机构内使用 DeepSeek，以及任何借助其 AI 模型构建的技术。
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has banned all use of DeepSeek within civilian government agencies, and any technology built with the aid of its AI models.
作为一种开源的强大人工智能模型——意味着它可免费访问且使用成本较低——DeepSeek 被视为持续进行的人工智能技术竞赛中的颠覆性力量。
As a powerful AI model that is open source - meaning it is free to access and less expensive to use - DeepSeek has been seen as a disruptive force in the ongoing AI technology race.
尽管 DHS 通知未详细说明围绕 DeepSeek 的具体安全问题，但白宫今年已对来自中国的人工智能公司提出批评。
While the DHS notice did not detail the exact security concerns surrounding DeepSeek, the White House has this year criticised AI firms from China.
DHS、DeepSeek 以及中国驻华盛顿特区大使馆已被联系以获取评论。DHS 在周一公开了该命令，但禁令自七月底起生效。
The DHS, DeepSeek, and the Chinese embassy in Washington DC have been contacted for comment. The DHS made the order public on Monday, but the ban took effect from the end of July.
该命令特别针对平民机构，包括财政部、国务院和司法部。然而，国防部下属机构被排除在外。
The order is specific to civilian agencies, including the Department of the Treasury, the Department of State and the Department of Justice. However, agencies within the Department of Defense are excluded.
该禁令紧随特朗普政府对中国人工智能的批评以及美国企业的批评之后。
The ban follows criticism of Chinese AI from the Trump administration, and from American firms.
白宫科技负责人迈克尔·克拉特西奥斯（Michael Kratsios）今年早些时候在一份内部备忘录中写道，“恶意利用”美国人工智能公司的行为一直在发生，主要来自中国的竞争对手公司。
White House tech lead Michael Kratsios wrote earlier this year in an internal memo that "malicious exploitation" of American AI firms had been occurring, mainly by rival firms in China.
Anthropic 和 OpenAI 这两家公司均计划在未来几个月在公开股票市场上市，它们也曾声称其人工智能模型基本被一些中国人工智能公司复制，其中包括 DeepSeek。
Anthropic and OpenAI, both of which are poised to list on the public stock market in the coming months, have also claimed to have had their AI models essentially copied by some Chinese AI firms, including DeepSeek.
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普明确表示，他认为中国是美国在人工智能发展方面的关键竞争对手，而他将此视为国家未来的关键。
US president Donald Trump has made clear that he sees China as the key US rival when it comes to development of AI, something he sees as crucial to the future of the country.
自 2025 年首次公开发布以来，DeepSeek 的受欢迎程度持续增长，其模型需求旺盛，以至于公司服务器时常出现故障。
DeepSeek has grown in popularity since its initial public release in 2025, with models being in such demand that the company's servers have gone down at times.
DeepSeek的免费聊天机器人应用是苹果应用商店排名中下载量最高的应用之一，其AI模型也被美国科技公司使用。Snowflake、Vercel和OpenRouter等公司都在其面向客户的产品中集成了DeepSeek。初创公司纷纷转向像DeepSeek这样的开源模型。
While DeepSeek's free chatbot app is one of the most downloaded apps in the Apple App Store rankings, its AI models are also used by US tech companies. Companies like Snowflake, Vercel and OpenRouter all incorporate DeepSeek in their offerings to customers. Startups have flocked to open source models like DeepSeek.
对于技术或AI开发者来说，在工作中使用DeepSeek的成本仅为使用谷歌的Gemini、Anthropic的Claude或OpenAI的Codex等闭源模型成本的一小部分。
For a technology or AI developer, using DeepSeek in their work costs a fraction of what a closed model like Google's Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude or OpenAI's Codex would.
同样，DeepSeek开发其模型所承担的费用远低于美国AI公司开发自身模型所需的费用。
Similarly, the expense borne by DeepSeek to develop its models has been astronomically less than what it has cost US AI firms to develop their own.
去年，DeepSeek表示，训练其模型首个版本大约花费了600万美元（约合450万英镑），而OpenAI的GPT-4相关成本大约为1亿美元。此类揭露导致科技股暴跌。
Last year, DeepSeek said it took about $6m (£4.5m) to train the debut version of its model, while the costs associated with OpenAI's GPT-4 were roughly $100m. Such revelations sent tech stocks tumbling.
DeepSeek的最新版本于上周发布。该模型的用户在线称赞它，表示它在常见的AI工具任务（如计算机软件编程）上甚至超越了OpenAI最先进的AI工具。
The most recent version of DeepSeek was released last week. Users of the model have praised it online, saying it beats even the most advanced AI tools out of OpenAI on common tasks for AI tools like computer software coding.