DeepSeekBot
DeepSeek's web crawler for their open-source large language models.
What is DeepSeekBot?
DeepSeekBot is the web crawler for DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab that has produced several notable open-source language models including DeepSeek-V2 and DeepSeek-Coder. Their models have gained significant attention for approaching frontier performance at lower cost.
The crawler collects training data for DeepSeek's model development. As an open-source model provider, data crawled by DeepSeekBot could influence models that are freely available and widely deployed by third parties.
DeepSeek has emerged as one of the most impactful AI labs in terms of efficiency research. Their models are used globally, making DeepSeekBot an increasingly relevant crawler to monitor and manage.
User-Agent Strings
These are the known user-agent patterns used by DeepSeekBot. Use them to identify this crawler in your server logs or configure robots.txt rules.
robots.txt example:
User-agent: DeepSeekBot Disallow: /private/ Allow: /
How to Manage DeepSeekBot
Content may end up in widely-deployed open-source models.
Consider data policy implications of contributing to open-source AI training.
Use Switch to monitor crawl patterns and frequency.
Block in robots.txt if you want to opt out of training data collection.
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