DeepSeek R1 is now available on Perplexity to support deep web research. There's a new Pro Search reasoning mode selector, along with OpenAI o1, with transparent chain of thought into model's reasoning. We're increasing the number of daily uses for both free and paid as add more… pic.twitter.com/KIJWpPPJVN

Despite the controversy surrounding the Chinese open-source model, it has received the blessing of US companies that say their versions of it are safer and feature less censorship.

I asked some of the most popular chatbots including DeepSeek if DeepSeek was a threat to national security. All the answers were similar except for the one from DeepSeek itself.