“Officials are also considering two other possible moves: banning the DeepSeek app from U.S. app stores and putting limits on how U.S.-based cloud service providers could offer DeepSeek’s AI models to their customers, people close to the matter said. They cautioned that discussions about these two moves were still at an early stage.”
The models thing doesn't make any sense. I can see blocking the app or website since the data is actually flowing into Chinese controlled servers, but models / weights is just data. If they do that it would be only as a gift to "American" players.