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I think you misunderstand how data processing works in a LLM. You absolutely can download the weights of a chinese model and run it on hardware you control.

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And Mistral also do exactly that. They host GLM-5.3.

This strategy only works as long as China continues publishing weights. Domestic training capabilities are one way of mitigating that risk.

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