There are a number of reasons that you might not want to build your inference stack on a Chinese origin model even if you're running it entirely in house.

For one, you might not trust that the weights do not contain ideological biases (e.g. ask DeepSeek about tibet) or that the methods used to impose these biases may not have contaminated the model in some other way.

For another, you might not trust that the code the model generates won't be backdoored or attempt to leak information through your sandboxes.

For a third, you may not want to build your stack on a partner who you feel is a supply chain risk, who might become unaligned with your interests.

By far the biggest though, is that many industries will be forbidden from doing so by the government in an attempt to protect the US model industry (and thus create the demand for some model like this one).

I'm always excited to see new entrants to this open-models race, no matter why they're running.

I wish it didn't matter to me, but it does. I work in government and we self host. No matter how much I explain to them that by hosting weights on our own hardware, it doesn't matter where they came from, they still refuse to let me deploy anything from China.

> Why should US or China matter if its open weights?

Weights aren’t source that can be inspected for nefarious tricks that would impact use, so, to the extent that there is a dinension of trust associated with nation of origin, being open weights doesn’t obviate the concern (I would argue, though, that there is very little reason to for nation of origin to be a significant factor in trust alone, though a finer grained consideration of origin might be sensible.)

> Why should US or China matter if its open weights?

Well, you might want to know what propaganda/censorship you are subjected to. Case in point, a regional government in Austria just learnt that their AI doesn't know about the Tiananmen Square massacre.