#UPDATE Australia's science minister raised privacy concerns over China's breakout AI chatbot DeepSeek on Tuesday, urging users to think carefully before downloading it.

Praised for its ability to match Western competitors at a fraction of the cost, it has surged to the top of app download charts, displacing market leader ChatGPT.

"There are a lot of questions that will need to be answered in time on quality, consumer preferences, data and privacy management," Australian Science Minister Ed Husic told national broadcaster ABC. 

Husic said Chinese companies sometimes differed from Western rivals when it came to user privacy and data management