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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.

"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.

footnote 10 says it includes 3rd party implementations of DeepSeek

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