China is reportedly putting Deepseek under close surveillance

China appears to believe its AI startup Deepseek could become a prominent technological success story for the country.

After Deepseek made an announcement in January, Open “Inference” model, R1 The company is currently operating under new, more strict restrictions affected by the government. According to the information. According to the information, some of the company’s employees are freely blocked from traveling abroad, and the Chinese government is currently playing a role in screening potential investors.

Deepseek implements travel restrictions by keeping the passports of certain staff members, the parent company, HighFlyer, a quantitative hedge fund.

Development comes weeks after it is reported that the Chinese government is instructing it AI researchers and entrepreneurs to avoid travel to the USfearing the loss of trade secrets.

TechCrunch reached out to Deepseek for comment.