DeepSeek is a company. This article is about a distributed file system they have developed. It is a separate, unrelated piece software from their open-weight models(DeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek-V3, etc).
In your example it is likely the US college has been authorized to use a DeepSeek model for research, not the DeepSeek 3FS distributed file system.
In your example it is likely the US college has been authorized to use a DeepSeek model for research, not the DeepSeek 3FS distributed file system.