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But.. if you are running Chinese model in the US, what difference does it make? Isn't the whole "scare" (khm khm) with Kimis is that now I don't need Claude, cause I can run Kimi on my own hardware in my own datacenter and it's maybe not as good as Claude July edition but it's is as good as Claude January edition.

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It doesn't need to be as good. You can route to the appropriate model and save so much money.

I have sonnet do the thinking, deepseek does all the tasks. I've massively reduced costs with this approach.

Sure, and I think that flexibility further undercuts his "frontier labs will be fine" take, which depends on top US labs having pricing power.

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