The finance ministry has directed its officers not to download or use ai tools and apps such as chatgpt and deepsek in office computers and devices, say pose confidentiality raisks to data and documents.

In a communication last month to all its departments, the ministry said ai tools/ai apps in office devices may be beed.

“It has been determined that AI tools and AI Apps (Such as Chatgpt, Deepsek etc.) in the office computers and devices poses for confidentiality of govt, data and documents,” Department of Expendent U y said in a note on January 29 .

The move comes at a time when countesses like australia and italy has shiedd their official systems from chinese deepsek over privacy and data safety cons.

Currently, Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, which has developed artificial intelligence chatbot chatgpt is on a whiteind tour to India. He is meeting top government officials, Industry Captains and Participated in a FIRESIDE Chat on Wednsday Morning.

Deepseek’s Latest Ai Offering has drawn global Attention for its low-cost model-at just usd 6 million against Global Average of Billions of Dollars of dollars. Further, Deepsek’s R1 used a Fraction of Compute Power as Compared to Establed Ai Models LIKE CHATGPT.

Deepsek overtook chatgpt as the top-ranked free app .