'DeepSeek effect' brings big new security challenges, Cisco says

Cybersecurity solutions provider sees booming demand for AI risk mitigation

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Cisco, a leading provider of networking security products and services, expects to profit as the demand for and capabilities of AI models and the chips that run them grow.

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BARCELONA, Spain -- By kicking off a boom in AI inference development, the emergence of Chinese startup DeepSeek has led to a "profound challenge in security and safety" for the tech industry, according to an executive with Cisco Systems, one of the world's leading networking and security solutions providers.

Jeetu Patel, executive vice president and chief product officer at Cisco, told Nikkei Asia that by lowering the cost of entry, DeepSeek's approach to AI is opening up new challenges as well.

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