Makes sense - many US customers will probably be going to US providers once they release the weights.
Deepseek's official API has a pretty bad privacy policy so I would assume businesses avoid them in any event
Which is a real bummer because it’s otherwise solid with excellent caching.
I'd still prefer it wasn't like that, but I guess it's a compromise ultimately, at least I'll be able to run it myself.
I know it's more complicated than that, with economics and privacy factors involved. But if I operate on the assumption that real privacy is real hard I'd rather just be guarded and careful with my prompts and whatever output I give to the LLM and expect that it will be training on that, rather than spill all my darkest secrets to some other LLM provider that pinkie-promises privacy only to leak it publicly later, anyway.
Not saying they are or will, but their privacy policy is so permissive.
Interestingly it seems that Chinese customers are even more privacy-concerned than US ones, which is why the majority of Ziphu's (GLM) business is support services to Chinese companies running their open-weight models on-prem!