Is Southeast Asia ready to embrace DeepSeek? Costs, security among concerns
- Posted on February 7, 2025
- By South China Morning Post
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Is Southeast Asia ready to embrace DeepSeek? Costs, security among concerns
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While DeepSeek is an attractive alternative, analysts say it has ‘a long way to go’ to widespread adoption as many of its services are not as developed.