No, that isn't going to happen. The US can't afford to lose the AI race and US companies that can't compete will get thrown under the bus and replaced with those that can.

The DHS order only bans buying DeepSeek products directly (e.g. doing inference on their China hosted servers). It does not apply to open weights at all. And DeepSeek just gave their response to the DHS order.

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dash-44 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No it doesn't. It bans:

"third-party products and services developed using DeepSeek implementations".

So gov can't use western inference of DeepSeek either.

	▲	metalspot 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		"DeepSeek implementation" in this context means a third-party product that uses a DeepSeek product, e.g. the DeepSeek API. This does not apply to open data running on a non-affiliated third-party inference provider.

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sroerick an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I agree with you - but there is also an ambiguity, the text of the the order also seems to ban any products coded with DeepSeek

	▲	metalspot 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No, it is being interpreted that way by people who either don't understand basic legal writing and the legal standards for an order of this nature, or by people [who] are purposefully FUD'ing in order to take advantage of that lack of specialist knowledge.