The Indian Ministry of Finance has asked its employees to avoid the use of AI tools that include chatgpt and deepseek for official purposes, citing risks raised to the confidentiality of the documents and government data, showed an advisor to the internal department.
Countries such as Australia and Italy have imposed similar restrictions on the use of Deepseek, citing data security risks. The reports of the notice appeared on social networks on Tuesday, before a scheduled visit to India by the head of Operai, Sam Altman, Wednesday, when he will also meet with the Minister of IT.
“It has been determined that AI tools and AI applications (such as Chatgpt, Deepseek, etc.) on computers and office devices propose risks for the confidentiality of data and documents (government),” said advice of the Ministry of Finance of India dated January 29.
Representatives of the Ministry of Finance of India, ChatgPT-PARENT OPENAI and Deepseek did not immediately respond to comments requests.
Three officials of the Ministry of Finance said the note was genuine and that the note was issued internally this week.
Reuters I could not confirm immediately if similar directives have been issued for other Indian ministries.
Operai faces heat in India due to a battle of high profile copyright with the main media houses in the country, and has said in judicial presentations that it does not have its servers in the country and the Indian courts should not Listen to the matter.
Altman de Openai meets with the Minister of IT of India to discuss the plans of the country’s the AI
Operai’s executive president, Sam Altman, met with TI Minister of India Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday and discussed India’s plan to create a low -cost ia ecosystem.
Vaishnaw said in an X publication that he had a “super great discussion” with Altman in the “Indian strategy to create the entire AI stack: GPU, model and applications” and that Openai was willing to collaborate in all three.
The visit of the India of Altman, the first since 2023, arrives at a time when the company faces legal challenges in the country, its second largest market by number of users.
Vaishnaw praised last week the China Depseek startup for shaking the sector with its low -cost AI assistant, comparing its frugal approach to its government’s efforts to build a localized AI model.
“Our country sent a mission to the moon to a friction of the cost that many other countries did well, why can’t we make a model that is a fraction of the cost that many others have?” Vaishnaw said in a video from the discussion with Altman he published.
Altman’s trip to India follows visits to Japan and Korea. He secured with the SoftBank and Kakao group. In Seoul, he also had conversations with SoftBank and Samsung about the Stargate AI Data Center project that has been supported by the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
