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Comment by dfansteel | Hacker News Reader

Can anyone check its knowledge base for me? I’m honestly not able to run it and the Qwen models I can run censor information critical towards the Chinese government.

Tiananmen Square is the first place to start.

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> I’m honestly not able to run it

What do you mean? This is not self hosted, it's closed source. And any website that targets China or is hosted in China will probably censor Tiananmen Square.

There is no reason why they couldn't license the model to Friendli/Fireworks/etc and have it hosted in the US to alleviate this concern.

I don't know about this model specifically, but other china models did not have the limitation. It was purely on the hosted end, tacked on as a self check while the text was generating. Did that change?

The reason is to create domestic demand for Chinese AI chips so they can eventually be free of NVIDIA.

Replacing NVIDIA is not a problem, replacing ASML is.

China can't do EUV lithography, but they have done a great job of pushing DUV to its limits. If they have the chip design talent they can still produce useful chips for their domestic markets.

My computer lacks the ram.

Well if it had all the ram, you still could not run it because you can't download it. It's hosted by them, just like chatgpt or claude.

Oh, how about that! I stopped checking because I maxed out long ago.

BTW - They’re still censoring human rights violations.

Qwen models know about Tiananmen Square but they are post-trained to refuse to talk about it. The decensored versions will happily chatter away about it.

Similarly, try talking to Nemotron about Epstein and see how quickly it shuts down.

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